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pneExploring a little of alt.folklore.computers after I found those articles about Dr. Dobb's Journal was interesting. I read a couple of threads in their entirety and all posts by Dennis Ritchie and /BAH (jmfbahciv at aol.com) -- when I could still read Usenet at work (before the firewall blocked that port), alt.folklore.computers was one of the newsgroups I read there and I had Watched /BAH after seeing that she wrote a fairly large number of posts with interesting information about how things were "back then". I'm not sure exactly what she did but I think it was at DEC.
Interesting to read experiences people had with old line printers, IBM machines and terminals I'd never heard of, and so on.
Interesting to read experiences people had with old line printers, IBM machines and terminals I'd never heard of, and so on.
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Jargon File
Date: Sunday, 19 January 2003 13:17 (UTC)I first read it in the Jargon File v2.9.8 (IIRC) which I downloaded as a text file and printed out ... that would be about 10 years ago. (At least, I think the story of Mel was already in that version.)
I also have two books and one Jargon File T-shirt (which came free with one of the books when I bought it in the MIT bookstore).
Pity the Jargon File isn't really available as plain text any more (at least it wasn't last time I looked -- the HTML [or SGML?] was the source and the generated text had "rivers" of whitespace running down the columns).