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Re: Book about computer folklore

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From: Anthony A. Datri
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 23:28
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In article <63...@lindy.Stanford.EDU> unk...@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>	It's called the "Digital Deli" and it's by the "Lunch Group".. I think
>there may also be another 'real person' it's atributed to, but that should
>hopefully be enough for you to find the book. It's a large paperback book
>with stories on seemingly EVERYTHING you would want to know about the
>history and folklore of computers..

I got a free copy of this [so I would review it, apparently] back when
I was the entertainment editor of the campus paper.  It's got some good
stuff in it, like pictures of the Sol and the Apple 1 and Woz and Jobs
with hair and the phone-phreaking boxes they supposedly paid their way
through school selling.

It's almost exclusively dedicated to the micro world of the 70's and
early 80's, and has some pretty boring bits, like a story about a woman
who bought a Timex-Sinclair to see if she liked omputers and decided
that she didn't.

I'm fairly sure there's a "fiche and chips" pun in there somewhere.
I think a guy by the name of Steve Ditlea was involved, although it's
been a couple years since I looked at the thing.
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From: datri@concave.uucp (Anthony A. Datri)
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Subject: Re: Book about computer folklore
Keywords: "Digital Deli";Lunch Group
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Date: 14 Dec 89 23:28:45 GMT
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