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Re: History of Computing resource

Msg#2228 - Re: History of Computing resource

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Posted: 2/8/2002 by Duncan Smeed
Modified: 2/8/2002 by Duncan Smeed

>From the latest update to Librarians' Index to the Internet:
>
>>The History of Computing - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
>>"This collection of materials relating to the history
>>of computing" includes links to historical overviews;
>>information on people, corporations, and machines;
>>organizations and museums; and more."
>
>It is a good resource and includes a version of "Who
>wants to be a Millionaire" in which all the questions
>are on computing (unlike the computer-phobic tv original).
>See:
>
>http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/cgi-bin/million/index.html
>
>[snip]

I actually managed to answer everything correctly up to, and including, the 64000 hokie question. I bombed out on the 125000 question when I gave the wrong answer to 'What kind of engineer was Konrad Zuse?'

I'm pretty proud of my score. How sad is that ;-)?

Thanks for the link Alan.

Duncan

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