[format recovered] On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 1:36:00 -0700, David E Payne wrote:
As with it's subject, the few reviews I've read of this doco cover a wide spectrum of opinions. Apparently the aim was to show the Haight-Ashbury based hippy/freaks movement influenced nearby Silicon Valley's push to spread computers from big Govt, military & corporations into homes & small businesses.
I'm not impressed by the newspaper description that refers yet again to Apple supposedly having started in a garage.
I'm pretty sure it did. Do you remember the Apple I? Did you watch the programme? I'm certainly not known for being uncritical, but by normal press standards it wasn't too bad. Yes, the "hippy" aspect was a little overdone, I think, but the documentary gave me a historical perspective that I had lost. They pretended that Apple invented the mouse, but that was about the worst. I also wasn't too sure about the distinction between the Lisa and the (first) Macintosh, but that could be lack of information on my part. I don't think I've seen any documentary on computer history that was better.
It takes real effort to be less accurate than Wikipedia but our glorious professional mass-media do it every-time on this subject!
Well, read the article on Woz (and fix it, if you can). In this case, Wikipedia is pretty rough. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua