8 Apr
2003
8 Apr
'03
4:35 a.m.
On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, Steve Thatcher wrote:
From: Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com>
No, I meant that Sellam was giving the TV show's makers too much credit.
The way I thunk it, they knew that this Norton guy had been around for a
while, and they 'knew' that the Altair was the 'first computer', so they
just put them together. That was based on my opinions on how much Hollywood
and friends know about computer history.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
On Monday, April 7, 2003, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
If they used Norton then they were a few years too early to warrant giving
him any credit. He was a PC guy that released the Norton Utilities in
1982-1983 timeframe - after the blinkly light period of the late 70s
(unless someone can tell me what credit Peter should deserve for the
non-pc era). I guess that name is supposed to be a catenation
of "Northstar" and
"Altair".
You give these people too much credit. I'd say "Norton" and
"Altair".