Computer folklore

On the one hand, Shel Israel writes an interesting account of his VIP tour of the Computer Museum in Santa Clara. On the other, Scott Knaster points to a very cool new site, Folklore.org, for people to post their first-hand stories of involvement with development of new technologies. The first story posted, natch, is about Andy Hertzfeld’s involvement with the design of the original Apple Macintosh. Great reading. Now, if we can just figure out some way to get lots more stories preserved there, David and I will have something fun to read together. I’d particularly like to see Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky (Palm Pilot), Dave Cutler and some folks from his team (Windows NT 3.1), and anyone from the TiVo team post their stories.