Stories of Computer Folklore

All ofthese jokes/stories were originally posted between August 1982 and March 1993. Yes, it's been 7+ years since I ran out of time to keep updating the list. The dates on each line are the timestamps on the files (which may not match any internal dates) and show when these were added to the collection. Note that the list is sorted by date. Click here for the alphabetical list.

Dec 16 1992 Michelangelo Intel

Dec 16 1992 How Far Can Your Disk Seek?

Dec 16 1992 Following Instructions

Dec 16 1992 Magnetic Media

Dec 16 1992 It won't work any more!

Dec 16 1992 Floppy Disks and Floppy Users

Dec 16 1992 Clean Disks

Dec 16 1992 Booted Where?

Dec 16 1992 Termin What?

Dec 16 1992 Finding New Ways to Use Mice

Dec 16 1992 How do you measure nuclear warhead yield?

Dec 16 1992 How DOES AT&T Stay in Business?

Dec 16 1992 The Joys of a Sun Hardware Upgrade, ois.db Style

Dec 16 1992 Death Watch on Wall Street

Dec 16 1992 Statistcally Speaking, It's not Probable

Dec 16 1992 Evolutionary Emacs

Dec 16 1992 Weighty Mail Brings System to Knees

Dec 16 1992 DATE75 Revisited?

Dec 16 1992 Silicon Logos

Dec 11 1992 Switches On The Shuttle

Dec 11 1992 Robin Hood And Friar Tuck

Dec 11 1992 Quality Control

Dec 11 1992 Hyper Ethernet Advertisement

Dec 11 1992 Following The Manuals

Dec 11 1992 First Computer Bug

Dec 11 1992 The Original Cookie Monster

Dec 11 1992 Compiler Comments

Dec 11 1992 Color And The Apple ][

Dec 11 1992 Always Mount A Scratch Monkey

Dec 11 1992 Hide your serial cables!

Dec 1 1992 The History of IBM Operating Systems

Dec 1 1992 High Performance Systems

Dec 1 1992 Bizarre Solbourne Corruption

Dec 1 1992 Fascism GNU Style

Dec 1 1992 Installing RS-6000 model 220 workstations

Dec 1 1992 Popular Targets

Dec 1 1992 U.S. Patent Number: 4,956,809

Dec 1 1992 The Trials of Sobeco

Feb 11 1992 Catching Crackers

Feb 10 1992 UCLA Computer Room Sign

Feb 10 1992 The Big Bang (or the birth of the ARPANET)

Feb 10 1992 The Power Cycle Koan

Feb 10 1992 The Preconceptions Koan

Feb 10 1992 The Lambda Nature Koan

Feb 10 1992 The Garbage Collection Koan

Feb 10 1992 The Emac Bolio Name Koan

Jan 29 1992 Received from DECWRL Early One Morning

Jan 29 1992 Computer Advances in the Old USSR

Jan 29 1992 User-seductive Computing

Jan 29 1992 If Your Terminal Is On Fire

Jan 29 1992 O-S 2: Things it Won't Do

Jan 29 1992 Environmentally Friendly HP Computers

Jan 29 1992 How To Contact Your Sysadmin In An Emergency

Jan 29 1992 Fun with the Computing Center

Apr 2 1985 Robust Hardware!

Stories of Computer Folklore

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