Thank you for sharing
@Nitro , I did not know about BBN, but the other four definitely shaped not only the tech world, but also me ;D
There are a few others - Symbolics, and Xanadu for example.
Quote from: nuss on August 21, 2023, 08:57:12 AMThank you for sharing @Nitro , I did not know about BBN, but the other four definitely shaped not only the tech world, but also me ;D
You're welcome
@nuss! Four of the companies had an impact on me as well. NeXT hardware was too pricey for my wallet back in the day, but I collected some Cubes and Slabs between 2000 and 2008 when they were relatively inexpensive. I had a Commodore VIC-20/VC-20 early on, complete with cassette tape storage. I still have my Atari 2600, and recently picked up an inexpensive adapter to attach it to a flat panel TV. At work our company purchased Sun SPARCstations for the engineers way back in the day. Sun had a really nice F-18 flight simulator called Aviator (
https://techmonitor.ai/technology/aviator_15_for_sun_networks_opens_up_graphics_workstation_games_market). The sales guys would use the machines at lunchtime to play Aviator across the network. Eventually the company switched back to PC's just in time for the release of DOOM in 1993. Fun times.