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Article #108Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct!
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59
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In article <1992Apr16.123654.4010@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu> dana@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu (Dana Eckart) writes: >Everyone appears to be focused on the absence of the ABC in the series, >yet no one (as far as I can tell) seems concerned with the MINIMAL mention >of John von Neumann in the first show (I think he got a photo and a sentence >or two mention -- along the lines that he came on board to the ENIAC project >just as Eckert and Mauchley were leaving). Yes, I was annoyed that von Neumann's contributions were ignored. But then what can you expect from a program that says a transistor is 100 times ligher than a vacuum tube -- that would give it negative weight by my calculations.
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Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct! Message-ID: <1992Apr16.135924.15805@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <1992Apr16.123654.4010@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59:24 GMT Lines: 12