David G. Wiseman

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.

Dec161992 Michelangelo Intel
Dec161992 How Far Can Your Disk Seek?
Dec161992 Following Instructions
Dec161992 Magnetic Media
Dec161992 It won't work any more!
Dec161992 Floppy Disks and Floppy Users
Dec161992 Clean Disks
Dec161992 Booted Where?
Dec161992 Termin What?
Dec161992 Finding New Ways to Use Mice
Dec161992 How do you measure nuclear warhead yield?
Dec161992 How DOES AT&T Stay in Business?
Dec161992 The Joys of a Sun Hardware Upgrade, ois.db Style
Dec161992 Death Watch on Wall Street
Dec161992 Statistcally Speaking, It's not Probable
Dec161992 Evolutionary Emacs
Dec161992 Weighty Mail Brings System to Knees
Dec161992 DATE75 Revisited?
Dec161992 Silicon Logos
Dec111992 Switches On The Shuttle
Dec111992 Robin Hood And Friar Tuck
Dec111992 Quality Control
Dec111992 Hyper Ethernet Advertisement
Dec111992 Following The Manuals
Dec111992 First Computer Bug
Dec111992 The Original Cookie Monster
Dec111992 Compiler Comments
Dec111992 Color And The Apple ][
Dec111992 Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
Dec111992 Hide your serial cables!
Dec11992 The History of IBM Operating Systems
Dec11992 High Performance Systems
Dec11992 Bizarre Solbourne Corruption
Dec11992 Fascism GNU Style
Dec11992 Installing RS-6000 model 220 workstations
Dec11992 Popular Targets
Dec11992 U.S. Patent Number: 4,956,809
Dec11992 The Trials of Sobeco
Feb111992 Catching Crackers
Feb101992 UCLA Computer Room Sign
Feb101992 The Big Bang (or the birth of the ARPANET)
Feb101992 The Power Cycle Koan
Feb101992 The Preconceptions Koan
Feb101992 The Lambda Nature Koan
Feb101992 The Garbage Collection Koan
Feb101992 The Emac Bolio Name Koan
Jan291992 Received from DECWRL Early One Morning
Jan291992 Computer Advances in the Old USSR
Jan291992 User-seductive Computing
Jan291992 If Your Terminal Is On Fire
Jan291992 O-S 2: Things it Won't Do
Jan291992 Environmentally Friendly HP Computers
Jan291992 How To Contact Your Sysadmin In An Emergency
Jan291992 Fun with the Computing Center
Apr21985 Robust Hardware!


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