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- The Illustrated
- HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
- Part I
-
- by Dave Moorman
-
-
- Two events launched this Media-
- Meister opus:
-
- 1. Corky Cochran sent a disk of
- marvelous classical music,
- including the works of Joseph
- Haydn and W.A. Mozart.
-
- 2. I stumbled onto Wikipedia on the
- Web. Wikipedia is an open
- encyclopedia which accepts
- articles from users. The data
- seems sound, the pictures are
- good, it has a "text only" mode
- for C= users, and the links to
- other material can keep a
- researcher happy for days at a
- time.
-
- I am not sure now what I was
- looking for, but I called up the
- article on Charles Babbage, which had
- a great picture of the "Father of
- Computers." So I went on a spree --
- hunting down known and not-so-known
- personages behind our wonderful
- contraption. Soon I had enough for a
- whole show.
-
- MediaMeister seemed to be the best
- way to present several pages of text
- for each portrait. And it also allows
- music to play along with the show.
- That's when Corky's contribution came
- into play. The Haydn concert (with
- Mozart's Einen Kleinen Nacht Musick)
- made a good background for the
- history.
-
- You can read Corky's liner notes
- in the Haydn Read It file. Now, enjoy
- the program.
-
- DMM
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