On the interview, let me add: Good: Recognizing that Atanasoff did not really invent the first "computer". 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." Good: giving precedence to ENIAC and to some extent Colossus. Rather bad: Never mentioning (that I heard, could be wrong) either Eckert or Mauchly by name. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koblentz, Evan" <evan@snarc.net> To: "Haigh, Thomas" <thaigh@computer.org>, "Computer, SIG" <members@sigcis.org> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 4:02:48 PM Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Isaacson's book I heard Isaacson on NPR just now. Good: Realistic treatment to Al Gore's contributions to the Internet. Neutral: Power users today only learn software, not hardware, unlike in his transistor kit youth. (No mention of the present "maker" trend.) Bad: Personal computing was invented in the Bay Area and Altair was the first one. _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members