8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
12:47 p.m.
On 8 Aug 2008 at 12:03, Jim Brain wrote:
I don't mean to repost, but I had not seen this
posted as yet:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&…
Doesn't the "home computer" (not the Honeywell "kitchen computer")
go
back at least as far as 1968? Wasn't there an outfit that marketed a
box with two tape drives and a display in it for home use? Not a
computer, per se, but an information storage and retrieval device. A
name like "Viacon"? My brain has too many dustbunnies to remember
much more, but I recall reading about it a long time ago.
Perhaps one of the digital archaeologists on the list remembers.
Cheers,
Chuck