19 Nov
2009
19 Nov
'09
9:30 p.m.
Way too many people think that computing history
consists in its entirety
of:
Apple 1
Apple ][
IBM PC
Macintosh
along with Wordstar, WordPervert, Word
(which of course was Cringely's personal history of computing experience)
How many "documentaries" never even mention S100, TRS80, Atari, Commodore,
Northstar, Proctology, KIM-1, Electric Pencil, Easy Writer, etc.
and mention CP/M only as an introduction to Bill Gates?
Isn't that a very biased list too? What about all the larger machines?
What about Xerox/3 Rivers? What about DEC and HP (I still think the 9830
doesn't get the attention it deserves). What about larger IBM machines?
What about non-US micros (Acorn, for example). And so on (No, I know I am
missing stuff out too).
-tony