Re: PBS show

I enjoyed the show as well...I was a bit young when the Altair was first
published in Radio Elec., but that didn't stop me from trying to build one.
I recall spending 100's of hours piecing it all together - it all made
sense when I 'wrote' 3 hours of code to add a stack of numbers together.

It was (and still is) and addictive feeling to think (back then) "Wow, I
just did the same thing they were doing with Eniac in my bedroom!"

Now then, if we can only get Hollywood to accurately portray computers in
films...there's a hack. ;)

BTW-If you are still 'caught up' in the innovative 'demo or die' theme the
show portrays check out the following site (http://www.be.com/) - I'm sure
many of you have already been there? Are there any "Be" developers here?
What are your thoughts?

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Warren wrote:

> films...there's a hack. ;)
> 
> BTW-If you are still 'caught up' in the innovative 'demo or die' theme the
> show portrays check out the following site (http://www.be.com/) - I'm sure
> many of you have already been there? Are there any "Be" developers here?
> What are your thoughts?

I've got one - though I haven't had much of a chance to play with it so 
far (Be is in the same building as EIT, and I kept running into jlg in 
the lift :-)

They are pretty cool machines - the back panel is the ultimate in geek 
cool (there about as many ports and sockets as a sparc center 1000). The 
software is pretty alpha (they make no bones about that), and I have some 
reservations about their decision to use C++ as the API to just about all 
of the OS (things get pretty fragile when upgrading), but it's still a 
really cool box, and even if BeOS never pans out completely, you can 
still run Linux on it.

If you're in Menlo Park, definitely get a DEMO, it's the coolest new 
machine on the block. 

Simon
p.s
  does anywhere sell reasonably priced replicas of classic crypto 
hardware?

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Warren wrote:

> It was (and still is) and addictive feeling to think (back then) "Wow, I
> just did the same thing they were doing with Eniac in my bedroom!"

Isn't that illegal in some states?

-rich