3 Jul
2012
3 Jul
'12
1:07 p.m.
.. I overheard two teenage girls examining each other on tech history.
Girl A : "The first PC was ....?"
Girl B : "...the Macintosh !"
Girl A, looking in her textbook : "Correct !"
Sigh.......
ARGH!!!!
Of course "first PC" is open to debate, but a Mac ?
Can anyone give a resonable justification fo that answer. I actualyl
can';t think of anythign the Mac was 'first' for.
And yes, we've debated what the 'first PC' was many times. It depends on
what a 'PC' is. I'll go for the HP9830, being the first all-in-one
machine that ran a high-level language from ROM. You put it on a desk,
plugged it into the mains and started programming.
I should probably be happy that they learn *something*
about tech history.
Err, no. IMHO learnign incorrect information is worse than not learing it
at all.
-tony