Review: "History of Computing" CD

From: Andrew Davie <adavie_at_mad.scientist.com>
Date: Mon Dec 28 19:49:41 1998

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu
> [mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 1998 6:03 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Review: "History of Computing" CD
>
>
> >
> > 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
>
> You know, I have never found a CD-ROM that rivals a good (paper) book for
> content or useability. I'm not saying they don't exist, but....
>
> > 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
>
> Second minus-point. A CD like that should be platform independant. We
> have a platform independant format for hypertext, it's called HTML,
> right? So why not use it.
>
> > information (like, a couple of sentences for most machines) and <100
>
> You know, I know people (many on this list) who could fill a couple of CDs
> with information about a single classic computer, and then only have
> scratched the surface.
>
> Did it include any 'interesting' machines, or was it the standard
> Apple1/Altair 'history' ?
>
> ['Interesting' == a machine not known about - in detail - by most members
> of this list]
>
> -tony
>
>
Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 19:49:41 GMT

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