Interesting historical stuff
Here are some collections of articles I've saved from Usenet.
Some of them are specifically related to computer folklore
but many others are about other interesting technologies.
- historical calendar systems
- assorted tales related to television
- electricity and 50Hz vs. 60Hz power
- telecommunications, history of fax machines,
phone dials, and bulletin boards
- the early days of electronic mail
- core memory
- what was the first word processor? Here
are some contenders for the title.
- the invention of rot13
- humans failing the Turing Test
- Unix-like systems for Z80, Commodore 128, and Apple II
- Jay Miner and the Amiga
- the Apple II and an early computer virus
- the Atari 2600 video computer system
- text editors, particularly TECO
- games, particularly Zork and Centipede
- IBM's old logo and a 360 of one's own
- computer languages
- random micros, particularly the Coleco ADAM
- the MITS Altair 8800
- stories about some well-known people
- early days at Adobe
- punch cards
- flaky devices from Sinclair Research
- slide rules on space ships
- a bunch of random systems that didn't fit in
any of those categories, mostly big old ones
- trojan horse programs
- the Radio Shack TRS-80
- terminals and, for some reason, the X window system
- some Unix history