[24]. The $1.5 billion estimate is from Chris Christiansen of the Yankee Group.
[25]. The account of Select’s[Select’s] capital shortage and the metamorphosis into Quadsoft comes from InfoWorld, August 13, 1984. The merger information is from InfoWorld, October 8, 1984.
[26]. Dean’s Byte article appeared December 1983, p. 161.
[27]. Jerry Pournelle’s rebuttal to Dean and others of the “user friendly” school appeared in Popular Computing, May 1984, p. 81.
[28]. The Bricklin quote comes from Steve Ditlea’s excellent article in Popular Computing, September 1982, page 48, which helped me appreciate VisiCalc’s many uses.
[29]. The car wash, orchard, Yellow Pages, and painting examples come from USA Today, May 3, 1984.
[30]. Ripskis is not the hard-core bureaucrat I mentioned earlier in the chapter. He in fact puts out an underground newsletter regularly exposing his agency.
[31]. The ex-Bain man’s quote is from Harper’s, November 1982.
[32]. Computerworld, March 28, 1983.
[33]. Computerworld, March 28, 1983.