30 Sep
2007
30 Sep
'07
10:51 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
And even then people normally get it wrong, because someone, somewhere will
have done something which fits their definition - often without the finances,
marketing and media coverage which makes it mainstream and raises awareness of
their work.
The annoying thing is that the historians and researchers so often screw it up
too - or at the very least dress up their work in hype which loses the
'probably' / 'possibly' / 'amongst the' wording which conveys a
more accurate
picture of what they've found.
Sorry... pet peeve of mine :-)
J.
> Assuming
that it is entirely fiction, then it is merely what the script
> writer thinks of as being the first readily available personal computer.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
Wasn't there a thread about that on here a
few months back?
recurring periodically forever.
It all comes down to how the definition is worded.
"Northstar, because that was the only computer store in MY neighborhood",
etc.