<html><body>Apparently I only heard the second half.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 6, 2014, PeterEckstein@comcast.net wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><p>On the interview, let me add:</p>
<p>Good: Recognizing that Atanasoff did not really invent the first "computer".</p>
<p>Bad: Saying that JVA worked alone, when in fact Clifford Berry did much of the engineering. He was the "B" in the retrospectively named "ABC." <br clear="none"></p>
<p>Good: giving precedence to ENIAC and to some extent Colossus.</p>
<p>Rather bad: Never mentioning (that I heard, could be wrong) either Eckert or Mauchly by name.</p>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000; FONT-STYLE: normal"><b>From: </b>"Koblentz, Evan" <evan@snarc.net><br clear="none"><b>To: </b>"Haigh, Thomas" <thaigh@computer.org>, "Computer, SIG" <members@sigcis.org><br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 6, 2014 4:02:48 PM<br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Isaacson's book<br clear="none">
<div><br clear="none"></div>I heard Isaacson on NPR just now.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Good: Realistic treatment to Al Gore's contributions to the Internet.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Neutral: Power users today only learn software, not hardware, unlike in his transistor kit youth. (No mention of the present "maker" trend.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bad: Personal computing was invented in the Bay Area and Altair was the first one.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a shape="rect" href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members</a>/ and you can change your subscription options at <a shape="rect" href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a></div><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></body></html>