<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I was a bit snippy in my earlier comment; Tom Misa’s comment caused me to muse that maybe we should be grateful—selling 1000x as many books as any of us will surely boost interest in our field even if a few details are glossed or misconstrued. And that has to be good<div><br><div><div>On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:24 PM, <a href="mailto:PeterEckstein@comcast.net">PeterEckstein@comcast.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><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></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; font-style: normal;"><b>From: </b>"Koblentz, Evan" <<a href="mailto:evan@snarc.net">evan@snarc.net</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Haigh, Thomas" <<a href="mailto:thaigh@computer.org">thaigh@computer.org</a>>, "Computer, SIG" <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 6, 2014 4:02:48 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Isaacson's book<br>
<div><br></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>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from <a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from <a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>