Demos, Nick writes:

> Rudderow, Evan wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > Point your browsers to
>  > http://www.computerworld.com/home/features.nsf/all/980803hayes
>  > <http://www.computerworld.com/home/features.nsf/all/980803hayes>  to see
>  > Computerworld columnist Frank Hayes' Top 100 IT products of the century.
>  > HP3000 is in 37th place; where's Unix?
>  >
>  No UNIX, no Von Neuman computer, no ENIAC (pre-cursor to the
>  Univac 1), no IBM 650, this Frank Hayes doesn't know what he is
>  talking about.  There is a LINUX, though.  Hayes did not do any
>  research on this one.  I could point out some other errors, too,
>  e. g.  the IBM 402 was much better known than the 405.

There were a lot of systems and software that I though were left out, too, the
Altair (the first PC), the PostScript graphical printing language, and I
thought VisiCalc (the first electronic spreadsheet) should have rated much
higher than it did. But then I went back and read Hayes' criteria for his
selections and ordering, and I couldn't fault him too much for his list.

Indeed, the fact that the HP3000 was rated as having made the 37th most
significant impact in the history of computing in the 20th Century is no small
thing.

Wirt Atmar