What is the first computer?

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Thu Jun 18 03:26:17 1998

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Rax wrote:

> On a related note - I've been researching the history of computing for a
> book that I'm working on. At this point, I've got a pretty complete (I
> think) timeline. As soon as I can figure out (or some kind soul explains)
> how I can convert a MS Word (5.1 - I hate the later versions) table into an
> HTML table (the timeline runs about 10,000 words and I can't face the
> thought of re-typing it), I'll post it on my Web site for list members'
> general edification and enlightenment, as well as criticisms, corrections,
> and nit-picking.

Those later versions of Word you hate will auto-convert to HTML, but I
seem to recall that Microsoft's "internet assistant for word" (or some
such) came out around the 5.x timeframe.

As somebody pointed out, one huge table is a Bad Thing, but it should be
trivial to break it up into multiple tables once you've HTMLized it.

-- Doug
Received on Thu Jun 18 1998 - 03:26:17 BST