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| | #*: At eight A.M. word had arrived that Reitherman had taken over and that his goons were coming to clear the buildings. ''Everybody'' was fired. Harmon communicated it to the remaining lab people by announcing, "'''Jabba the Hutt''' is on his way." | | #*: At eight A.M. word had arrived that Reitherman had taken over and that his goons were coming to clear the buildings. ''Everybody'' was fired. Harmon communicated it to the remaining lab people by announcing, "'''Jabba the Hutt''' is on his way." |
| | #* '''1996''', Allucquère Rosanne Stone. ''The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=QZwsxDlApNwC&pg=PA153&dq=%22Jabba+the+Hutt%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o_txT_fBO7GziQf19vnjDw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwATgo#v=onepage&q=%22Jabba%20the%20Hutt%22&f=false page 153] | | #* '''1996''', Allucquère Rosanne Stone. ''The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=QZwsxDlApNwC&pg=PA153&dq=%22Jabba+the+Hutt%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o_txT_fBO7GziQf19vnjDw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwATgo#v=onepage&q=%22Jabba%20the%20Hutt%22&f=false page 153] |
| − | #*: Tramiel had the reputation of being the baddest, meanest manager in the cmputer business; those who worked under him were fond of referring to him as '''Jabba the Hutt'''. | + | #*: Tramiel had the reputation of being the baddest, meanest manager in the computer business; those who worked under him were fond of referring to him as '''Jabba the Hutt'''.<sup>12</sup> |
| | + | #*: At 8 A.M. word had arrived that Tramiel had taken over and that his goons were coming to clear the buildings. ''Everybody'' was fired. Hooper communicated it to the remaining lab people by announcing, "'''Jabba the Hutt''' is on his way." |
| | + | #*: [endnote, p 200] 12. The term "'''Jabba the Hutt'''" was first used, appropriately enough, by a group from LucasFilm that was visiting Atari on an exploratory mission to see what the two companies might have in common in regard to interactivity research. |
| | #* '''2005''', Mark Latham, ''The Latham Diaries'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=y37tVHOGWSoC&pg=PA274&dq=Jabba-the-Hutt page 274]: | | #* '''2005''', Mark Latham, ''The Latham Diaries'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=y37tVHOGWSoC&pg=PA274&dq=Jabba-the-Hutt page 274]: |
| | #*: Janine says that Oakes is the only one who ran hard. That would be right, I never get a break from '''Jabba the Hutt''', that's a given in this job. | | #*: Janine says that Oakes is the only one who ran hard. That would be right, I never get a break from '''Jabba the Hutt''', that's a given in this job. |
