Review: "History of Computing" CD

From: Andrew Davie <adavie_at_mad.scientist.com>
Date: Fri Dec 25 03:55:53 1998

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
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
information (like, a couple of sentences for most machines) and <100
(extremely poor quality/size) pictures - I was very disappointed.
Basically, I've put it in my computer once, and am now delegating it to the
trash bin. Rating: 0.5/10, and it would have been worse but for the nice
looking cover. There are many, many, many many more and much much much
nicer websites out there dealing with the same subject. I consider this
product to be, in short, pathetic.
Publisher: Lexikon Services, 1998 - HistoryCD_at_aol.com
AOL? Why am I not surprised??
Cheers
A
Received on Fri Dec 25 1998 - 03:55:53 GMT