Houston Chronicle: Presenting the top 10 personal computers of all time

You are correct about Bruce Artwick's Flight Simulator which eventually became the MS product. The article had several other factual errors (depending on your interpretation) and was generally pretty soft on supporting selections. There could and should be a whole pile of machines on any reasonable list that had a real impact as opposed to things like Dells, Compaqs and Tandy PC clones. Erik Klein www.vintage-computer.com www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum The Vintage Computer Forum -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Vintage Computer Festival Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:20 PM To: jcwren(a)jcwren.com; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Houston Chronicle: Presenting the top 10 personal computers of all time On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, J.C. Wren wrote: As could be expected, there are some inaccuracies in the article: "Among the games that got their start on the C-64: the original SimCity and what became Microsoft's Flight Simulator." I don't know about SimCity, but Flight Simulator was first written, I believe, on the Apple ][. "the Altair (named after a star that was prominent in a Star Trek episode) appealed only to the most geeky" Two things: 1) it is not clear where the Altair name came from; it was either Ed Roberts' daughter (niece?) who suggested it or Sol Libes, and 2) the Altair didn't appeal "only to the most geeky", but to anyone who wanted their own computer back in 1975, which is to say EVERY geek (and then some). To say that demonstrates inept researching. Otherwise, it's an OK article. At least he didn't fall into the "first" trap. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]