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1. 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   @Differentname, there is definitely that sort of lore for programmers! Search for “The Story of Mel” (there’s a Wikipedia article about it as well). One of my favorite articles from that era is “Real programmers don’t use Pascal”, which is also still out there.

2. almost 2 years ago on The Barn

   Check your math again.

3. over 2 years ago on Gasoline Alley

   Jackie Stewart.

4. over 2 years ago on The Barn

   And the chickens go

   Cluck … cluckcluck … cluckcluck … cluckcluckcluckcluck …

5. almost 3 years ago on Ordinary Bill

   “And a family named … the Aristocrats!”

6. over 3 years ago on Working Daze

   It depends on what they’re involved with. I was involved with writing code for a trainer where being able to understand the schematics for the actual hardware saved a lot of effort. It can also help if you’re trying to communicate with specialized equipment.

7. over 3 years ago on Grand Avenue

   “What are you dressed as, little boy?” “A TV repair man.”

8. over 3 years ago on Grand Avenue

   We didn’t have “online comics” in the 1970s, not in their current form at least. We did have “online”, though, and jokes were passed around.

9. over 3 years ago on Grand Avenue

   Sure we did. We just had to look harder for it, and it might have taken more than a few minutes to find it.

   Looking for info on the web nowadays is like being in the middle of the world’s largest “Whispering Game” – the one where you whisper a message from person to person and see what it’s like when it gets to the last person.

10. over 3 years ago on Nancy

    Nancy is definitely an engineer at heart, not that she’d ever admit it. I know people like this, including a young lady who told her father (who is an engineer) that she’d never become one. Until she did.