🚀 go-pugleaf

Most of the comments on the Xerox Star that have appearred in the paper say
something like "very nice...for half the price".  VERY few companies have
computer capitalization that exceeds $10,000 per person.  That's roughly
what it is at DEC (internal transfer cost), and the average outside company
would have to spend a lot more to reach the same level, which I consider
just adequate (terminal at home, one at work, access to several group
machines).  The comments that I have heard from people in marketing are
that they don't think that large numbers of the Star will be sold to peons,
but rather to management types, who can use it as a status symbol.

So one requirement of a personal workstation that you are going to give
to everybody, including the secretaries, is a price of less than $10,000
including overhead from network, printer, file servers, etc.  Also including
software.