History

Computing history is one of the recurring threads on paco.org. I am interested in how today’s technology grew out of older systems, habits, constraints, and ideas—and in preserving some of the experience of using those systems while they were current.

Selected Writing

• The Age of Marvels
• A Programmer, Again
• The Digital Calculator Blues
• The Intercom
• Everything We Got Wrong

Historical Collections

• The Loudmouth — the preserved 1980s publication archive.

This section will eventually also provide a home for selected material about early personal computing, the early Internet, newspaper production, and other parts of a life spent alongside changing technology.