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28 Dec
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-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu
[mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 1998 6:03 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Review: "History of Computing" CD
Knowing I'm "in" to old computers, my in-laws bought me a really cool
looking CD for Christmas. Called simply "History of Computing - An
You know, I have never found a CD-ROM that rivals a good (paper) book for
content or useability. I'm not saying they don't exist, but....
Encyclopedia of the People and Machines That Made
Computer
History", it had
great promise. Although very appreciative of the
thought behind the
present, I have to say that I simply hate this pathetic
compilation. Taking
just 20Meg of the CD, as a single windows
Help-file (!!), very poor
Second minus-point. A CD like that should be platform independant. We
have a platform independant format for hypertext, it's called HTML,
right? So why not use it.
information (like, a couple of sentences for most
machines) and <100
You know, I know people (many on this list) who could fill a couple of CDs
with information about a single classic computer, and then only have
scratched the surface.
Did it include any 'interesting' machines, or was it the standard
Apple1/Altair 'history' ?
['Interesting' == a machine not known about - in detail - by most members
of this list]
-tony