VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places (1989)

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> establish a procedure for nightly backups. The senior gnome seemed to think I was going to put the computer in reverse, but the apprentice's son had an IBM PC and he quickly whispered that "backup" meant making a copy of a program borrowed from a friend and why was I doing that?

Some things never change

Thus the importance of the story and why keeping it alive in the "oral" tradition of software engineering.

This is of the same golden era of writing as The Story of Mel - A Real Programmer ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html ) which was from '83.

Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering - https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw

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