A Day in the Life of a SysAdmin

from: tfarrell@lynx.dac.neu_dot-edu (Thomas Farrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin, alt.sysadmin.recovery subject: Re: I need a job… Date: 4 May 1995 00:29:51 GMT Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Magneto (magneto@news.epix-dot_net)...

Computer Folklore from usenet net.rumours

From: ajs@hpfcdc.HP.COM Sat Nov 10 14:40:39 1990 From: ajs@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein) Subject: Re: “The Devouring Fungus” at a bookstore near you > …a collection of anecdotes and stories about computer technology and > the people who...

The Evolution of a Programmer

From High School to CEO High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD” 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln(‘Hello World’) end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons ‘Hello (list ‘World))))...

Me and My PDP11

From: lape@me.chalmers.se (Lars Persson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Me and my PDP… (long) Message-ID: <ByM0CI.5EJ@news.chalmers.se> Date: 2 Dec 92 02:02:41 GMT Organization: Chalmers University of Technology Lines: 234 Way back in the old...

VAXen Don’t Belong Everywhere

gopher://wiretap.area.com/00/Library/Techdoc/Lore/vaxen.not” obrien@aero.UUCP Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: VAXen, my children, just don’t belong some places Message-ID: <2844@looking.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 89 11:30:05 GMT Lines: 277 ( I’ve...