5 Jul
2010
5 Jul
'10
11:59 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Murray McCullough wrote:
ZDNet a mainstream media company looked at VCF UK. It
showed British-micro
history. Very interesting...could have had more commentary! Great pictures
though.
Well, that may be a plus.
Cutesy and very inaccurate news commentary about archaic, obsolete,
"useless" old stuff tends to get us riled up.
My experiences with ZDNet have usually been with young 30-something
and 40-something kids whose "first computer" was Pentium with Windoze.
Let's see, . . . (think Cringely?)
Ed Roberts said, "Let there be light", and produced the Altair or Imsai or
something. Then came the Apple ][, then the IBM PC, and then the
Macintosh. Anything else along the way didn't matter.
<sigh>