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From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Tue Apr 29 00:31:12 1997

On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, William Donzelli wrote:

> > > Some show features:
> > > Classic Computer Spotlight - every year a
> > > first show are Altair 8800; Apple ][; Commodore
> > > PET; ???).
> >
> > Yes - give the Altair it's time in the spotlight.
> > Next year do the PET.
>
> PDP-8, PDP-11, IBM S/3xx, Nova, etc. Computers were not invented in 1974,
> guys.

Yes, I realized that. The PDP-8 and PDP-11 are definitely worthy of
mention, but did they really make the impact and have significance equal
to the Altair and the others? I'm sure you could argue to that effect.
Care to?

> > > Classic Computer Pioneer - every year an
> > > computer industry, but is not necessarily active
> > > anymore (ie. this precludes Bill Gates from
> > > qualifying). Nominees: Gary Kildall, creator of
> > > CP/M; Steve Wozniak; ???
> >
> > How about Babbage??? I'd bet a dollar anyone
> > running Winders never heard of the guy 8-)
> > Naw - go for Gary - without him there would
> > not have been a home computer (pulling up the
> > zipper on my flame proof suit)
>
> Cray, Amdahl, Olson, etc. - same reason as above.

Good suggestions. But for the first year, recognizable names from the
annals of computer history would go a longer way towards gaining support
from sponsors and such. This is in my opinion. Anyone care to offer a
challenge to this?


Sam
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