Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct!

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From: Ellen R. Spertus
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:42

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In article <1992Apr10.183002.5425@sctc.com> smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes:
>dab@moxie.moxie.oswego.edu (David Alan Bozak) writes:
>
>>I was appalled that there was NO mention of Atanasoff.  
>
>The show is titled "The Machine that Changed the World." ENIAC
>and its progeny changed the world. Atanasoff's machine didn't.

I don't agree with this objection.  Konrad Zuse's machine didn't
change the world, but he was featured.

Incidentally, people interested in computer history should see Robert
Slater's _Portraits in Silicon_.  It has chapters on Babbage, Turing,
von Neumann, Shannon, Zuse, Atanasoff, Mauchly & Eckert, Aiken, etc.,
as well as the next generations, including Shockley, Cray, and Ritchie
& Thompson.

					Ellen Spertus

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