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...
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))))...
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...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.dec Path: spies!sgiblab!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!crash!ryptyde!scott From: scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) Subject: Old Iron at Home Stories (List) Organization: Ryptyde TimeSharing, San Diego, CA Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993...
The Story of Mel Source: usenet:utastro!nather, 21 May 1983. Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and “user-friendly” software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term “software” sounded funny and Real...
(This was originally a Usenet response to some eager newbie questions.) Speak, O Guru: How can I become a Unix Wizard? O, Nobly Born: know that the Way to Wizardhood is long, and winding, and Fraught with Risks. Thou must Attune thyself with the Source, attaining the...
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