Microsoft's Computer Museum

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Wed Jun 10 19:13:51 1998

> That makes me wonder if they're going to attempt to rewrite history
> _again_... After all the Altair (it was the Altair, wasn't it) was hardly
> the first microcomputer, and Microsoft BASIC was hardly the first ever BASIC.

What corporate museum/book/institution/whatever does NOT try to rewrite
history? They all do, to some point. There are lots of reasons why
corporations start museums, and sadly the preservation of historic
artifacts and ideas is often not on the top of the list.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Wed Jun 10 1998 - 19:13:51 BST