20 May
1998
20 May
'98
4:05 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
I finally got to see the Computer Museum's "visible storage" at Moffet
Field last night (after the SAGE talk). Wow. Not only did they have
nearly every computer I've ever heard of, but several I've never heard of.
All this time, I've assumed that the first home computer was the Altair
(or the Kenback, or the Scelbi), but noooo.... It was the Honeywell
Kitchen Computer:
http://www.newmedianews.com/tech_hist/failed.html
How many were built? How many were sold?
I doubt that the first answer reaches two digits. I strongly doubt that
the second answer gets past enough to display at Disneyland and World's
Fairs (one at most) by a reseller with a _plan_, that being Honeywell's
own sales crew.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_