11 May
1997
11 May
'97
6:21 p.m.
On Mon, 5 May 1997, hellige wrote:
[About Jay Miner]
No, he didn't influence a whole
'generation' of computer hobbyist the way
CP/M did and such, but he certainly did some interesting things with the
hardware! Unfortunately, another computer great that has since passed away.
Shortly after Commodore 'passed on' IIRC. July 1994?
Astronomy magazine prints these calendars on which important discoveries,
launches and the like are printed. I wonder if anyone would buy a similar
thing with important computer dates on it.
Sir Clive Sinclair on the other hand gave us the
Sinclair series, so he
couldn't be all bad.
Oddly enough, the only Sinclair machines I've ever seen have been in
pieces. The ZX81 was the first computer I wanted to buy, though...
because it was the only computer I could AFFORD to buy, and my brother's
PET was soooo cool that I needed to have a computer of my own. Never did
get that ZX81. Ended up talking my father into an Apple ][+ clone
instead. :)
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca