26 Nov
1998
26 Nov
'98
6:16 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
Did anyone else see this? I thought it was much worse
than 2.0, but can
someone comment on its accuracy, whatever? I thought he left out a lot
of stuff, about bulletin board systems, and such.
The thing I was most amazed by was the Microsoft commercial, where they
actually acknowledged and saluted the contributions to computing of
non-Microsoft people.
They showed a series of pictures of people with captions explaining who
they are and what they did, including Grace Hopper (inventor of COBOL),
Dan Bricklin (inventor of the spreadsheet program).. I wish I had more
examples but right about then was when I started to doze off so my short
term memory didn't retain that. Suffice it to say I was pretty amazed it
turned out to be a Microsoft commercial.
Otherwise, the program (what I caught of it) was pretty good I thought.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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