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[–] colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The Jargon File in general is such a treasure

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I like the koans page

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago

seeing that jargon file has an extensive page on retrocomputing feels like figuring out that there were archeologists in ancient egypt