24 Apr
2017
24 Apr
'17
2:03 p.m.
On the question of "first personal computers", I think Evan's response of Apr 22 11:16:22 was very even-handed and well-considered.
Thank you.
Evan confuses admiration about results and persistence, for worship of a person at a point in time.
I immensely admire and respect what Wed did. I just see a lot of people in our hobby take any one inventor and hold that person above all others. For me it's Mauchly and Woz. :)
I personally cringe whenever Evan refers to "the homebrew era"... calling them "homebrew" suggests they were some person's one-off contraption from their basement. And retrospectively, casts them as second-class products
I promise you that's not what I meant.