Hi Folks, Long time no post. I've been thinking for sometime that it would be good to collect and archive Acorn related folklore in much the same way that folklore.org does for the verbal history of the Mac. To that end I've created a mailing list [1] to kick off a discussion about how we could capture the early history of Acorn. Anyone interested? [1] http://www.hexten.net/mailman/listinfo/acorn-lore-l
hexten@gmail.com wrote: > Long time no post. I've been thinking for sometime that it would be > good to collect and archive Acorn related folklore in much the same way > that folklore.org does for the verbal history of the Mac. I'm not familiar with the concept or the Mac version - what would this thing look like? How would it be different to one of the many "history of Acorn" articles on the web already? Cheers, Adam
Check out folklore.org. It's not an offical history; it's a collection of anecdotes and recollections from people who were there. I've found it really compelling and I'm hoping we could do something similar with early Acorn history. I recall a number of stories from the time and I'm sure there are more. Just the ones I can remember are a lot more interesting than the documented historical facts - both from a technical point of view and as a damn good story. See also: Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine for the kind of story I'm thinking of.