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ascii.textfiles.com 10y ago

In Realtime: Post-Mortem

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ascii.textfiles.com 10y ago

A Small Dark Detour

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archive.org 10y ago

Newsweek On Air Segment on the Apple Macintosh (1984)

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A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open

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That Time Archive Team Decided to Back Up the Internet Archive

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FriendFeed is shutting down

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The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (1978)

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The Emularity

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The hard problem with porting DOSBox to Emscripten

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Dutch newspaper wipes out articles citing fabricated sources

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What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015?

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The Internet Archive Telethon and Power Resumption

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SimFS (VZ/OpenVZ) Security Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3519)

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The Robot Army of Good Enough

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Internet Archive's "TV News" Redesigned

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The Heralds Of Resource Sharing (ARPANET, 1972)

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KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released

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I found this amusing "complaint" to Byte in this same issue (https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYT...):

  April's Foolers

  The hasty printing of data concerning 
  our Black-Hole Diode is not only an inva- 
  sion of our corporate security, but is not 
  in the national interest. (See the April 
  1981 BYTE, page 363.) 
[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-04/1981_04_BYT...]
  Our device, which is covered by US 
  patents and is classified by the National 
  Security Council as "Top Secret," should 
  not be pandered about in a general-circu- 
  lation magazine for all to see, especially 
  when those not friendly to our nation may 
  learn details of this device. 

  Furthermore, how BYTE learned of the 
  existence of our device is unknown to us, 
  but be advised that stricter security has 
  been imposed to forestall any further 
  lapses. 

  Be also advised that the company BYTE 
  lists as being responsible for creating the 
  Black-Hole Device, Spatial Regression 
  Ltd, will shortly receive summons from 
  our legal department. 

  Any repetition or further disregard for 
  national security regarding this device or 
  its uses in particle-beam research will 
  bring about swift and final action. 

  J.W. Kelty
  Chief Executive Officer 
  Code-7 Electronics 
  POB 1505 
  Modesto CA 95353
And Byte's response:
  Each year, the BYTE staff enjoys slip- 
  ping a few joke items into the April issue 
  for our readers to find; some are subtle, 
  some are outrageous. Response to this 
  year's foolishness was greater than in any 
  year past. In case you missed it, look for

  "Lost Dutchman's Bug" (photo), 
  page 302 
  "Black-Hole Diode" (new product), 
  page 363 
  "Noise-Emitting Diode" (new product), 
  page 364 
  "Slightly Used Cray-1" (unclassified ad),
  page 414 

  So you see, there's no need for "swift 
  and final action" (gulp!) — we were just 
  kidding! By the way, where should we 
  return the sample device that was in- 
  cluded with your letter? . . . CPF