Computer History Museum

Lincoln Spector Gigglebytes Collection

Item Details

Level of description
Collection
Date
1986-2008
Extent
1 box
Collection title
Lincoln Spector Gigglebytes Collection
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Spector
Catalogue number
600001195
Lot number
2023.0101

A collection of GIggleBytes articles that Spector considers his best. Includes: Knowledge So Base Stock and Trade The Ultimate Ask Dr. Deeram Word Play Well Connected Citizen Gates Fresh Start, Fresher Problems Chip Soup Apocalypse DATE$() HMS MICROSOFT The Big Cookie The Big Move Rhyme Without Reason (June 2004) Notebook of the Damned (April 2004) Whois on First (March 2003) The Tragedy of DSL (September 2001) Dirty Work (November 2000) Hardware and Footwear (September 2000) The Maltese Penguin (June 1998) The Big Store (January 1998) Privacy Parts 2001.267 (December 1994) The Legend of the Pea Sea (June 1993)

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803754
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Offer for GIgglebytes to be available to a newspaper on a bi-weekly or monthly schedule. Includes "The Web Page Always Loads Twice" sample as well as urls to other sample articles.

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803755
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1992 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 32 Bits Worth Attack of the Killer Insect The Business End Class Action Glamous, GLitter, and Glitches Dr. Deeram Does it Again untitled piece Every Year Ends on Friday Programming Big Blue Bargain Basement The Tragedy of Macbill The Continental OS Bus Stop Interface Objectives That Obscure Object of Linked Embeddedness Dysfunctional Relationships Windows at the Speed of Windows Interface Council Grouping Users One Straight, Vertival Drop Model of a Modern Major Spreadsheet

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803756
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1993 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: Standard Committee Has Standards Grammatic License Consumer Consumed Seedy ROM Survivor's Guide to Comdex Well Connected Crash Course More Dr. Deeram Spreadsheet Games Between Thursday and Saturday Turning Green Games We Must Play History in the Remaking Getting Good Input The Legend of the Pea Sea Poetic License from the FTC DOS to DOS Base Data Phosphorized A Picture Worth a Thousand Bytes Initial Encounters Come Up to the Lab Non-Working Group Best Side Story

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803757
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1994 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 1994 calendar 2001.267 Apocalypse DATE$() One Too Many Relationships Investing in CDs - letter about CDs Dr. Deeram Strikes Out Again Ask Dr. Deeram Referential Treatment Child's Play Battle Hymn of the Executive Roadkill The Good Old Days Highway Robbery Out of Your System A Rose by Any Other Name The Pirates of Pentium The Big Reboot Point of Sale How Suite It Is Technical Supports Utility Bills Only a Test Off to See the Wizard Go With the Flow

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803758
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1995 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: Upgrades for 32 Bits Frequently Asinine Questions The Last Preview The Programmers of Chelm A Child's Garden of Bugs Nevada Purgatory Ask Dr. Deeram The First (Or Seventh) Annual Pentium Awards Plug and Swear Frequently Asinine Questions Stalled Install Day of the Lotus Betazoid Software Marching to a Different Clock Speed LAN's End Non-Operational System Browse Beaten Technology for the Worst of Us Untitled Letter to The Oregonian Edgar Allen Poe A Child's Garden of Worse Nevada Purgatory Stalled Install Ask Dr. Deeram Rommy [email protected] Waylaid on the Highway Billy the Chilly Webbed Feet Future Shuck I Cam, I Saw, I Purchased

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803759
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1996 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 1996 calendar Memo on 1996 Editorial Schedule and Deadlines Decimated Decade Back to the Futile Bad Connections Internet Futilities Cheap Connections Ask Dr. Deeram The Pentium Awards Games No One Plays Home on the Store Letter to Janna Custer Invasion of the BIOS Snatchers - A Proposal It's in the Mail Lord of the ROMs Mangling Your Money Murphy's System Untitled Politeness Counts Urge to Merge Wired Internet Futilities Search Warranty Digital or Binary Singin' in the Strain Songs for the New Millennium Mail Order Erratica The Pentium Awards Ubiquity Now Sites for Sore Minds 2,000 Maniacs

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803760
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1997 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 1997 calendar Improv Apple Cobbler Apple of His Eye Battle of the Browsers, 1999 Blood on the Sectors Chip Soup Coming Subtractions Deadlier Than the Mail Ask Dr. Deeram Dialing for Dullards The Third (Ninth) Pentium Awards HTMHell Justifiable Cybercide My Own Pricate I Don't Know Plugged Up Power Outage Sharewary Sign Off, My Lovely Small Office, Poor Office Talk Show Taxing One's Abilities The Book of Jobs The Maltese Novice Tyrannosaurus Redmond When the Chips are Down

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803761
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1998 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 1998 calendar Behind the Plexiglas Ask Dr. Deeram DOS Boot Ernie Goes Online Faster Than a Speeding Bit The Honorable Retort on Torts Award The (Who's Counting?) Pentium Awards Future Pretense Getting Nowhere Fast Good Gags Hex, Drives, and Archiving Tape Holiday in Hex Integrated Circus Know thy Enemy Like Windows, Only More So Mary Popup Outlook Unimpressed Panic in the Year 2000 Paying Through the Modem Personal Information Mangler Presentation Tense Problems 5 Solutions 0 The Big Store The Maltese Penguin Write and Wrong

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803762
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1999 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 1999 calendar Better Boxes Citizen Gates Ask Dr. Deeram Driver Training Easy Answers Free At Any Price Free Fall Fresh Start, Fresher Problems And the Winner Is... Home Popping Network Judge, Jury, and Executable Know thy Enemy Millennium II Thousand Office Politics Pings to Come Playing Monopoly Shop TIl You Pop Spam I Am Symphony in D Drive The Big Cookie The Last Gigglebytes Column... Until the Next One Think Tiny Thoughts Utility Bills Why To Kay

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803763
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2000 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: America on Everything Untitled work Auction Blocked Ask Dr. Deeram The 1999 HAL 9000 Awards Hardware and Footwear Untitled telemarketing work Judge, Jury, and Executable, Part II Mediocre Millennium OS SOS Poetry Slam Road Pacifist Stock Answers Why Wired Well Connected Why Wired Word Play

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803764
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2001 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: 2001 Editorial Calendar ComputerUser Writers Agreement Ask Dr. Deeram Ask Dr. Deeram Dirty Work Internet Startdown Lifestyles of the Poor and Pathetic Out with the Old and Out with the New The Big Move The Big Move The Check is in the Vapor The Ultimate The Wonderful World of Redmond The Tragedy of DSL Webbed Foot in Mouth

Type
Document
Format
Word Document, PDF
Catalogue number
102803765
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2002 GiggleBytes articles. Includes: Double-O Norman The Size of Things to Come Industrial Strength Mail Bag Pirates of Substance (with edits in red) Stock and Trade Telephone Consultation The Hardest Upgrade The Night Visitor The Web Page Always Loads Twice Wordless Processing Worth a Thousand Pixels

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803766
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Miscellaneous GiggleBytes articles. These articles may appear in other GiggleBytes compilations. Includes: 2008: An iOdyssey A Day in the Life A Little Bit of Charity Another New Office Apparently a Parent Back-and-Forth, Back-Handed, Back Burner Backups Bob Dylan: Tech Support Breaking Out the Code Buzz Cut Canned Meat to Dead Meat Carry This Column Companies, Halt Consumed by Electronics Copyfright Dictionary of the Electronic Tongue Entertainment or Turture Failure to Communicate From Russia with Phish Future Schlock Global Attritioning Satellite Harry Potter and the Master Boot Record Hasta la Vista HAve Yourself a Very Dreary Christmas iCcessories Jumping Jack Flash Drive The Last GiggleBytes Column Knowledge So Base Leader of the (Service) Pack Longhorn and Bull Managing Time Management Marital Bliss or Marital Blister Networking Made Easy Notebook of the Damned Past Perfect and Very Tense Advance to the Beginning The Legend of the Pea Sea, Part II Pocketful of Miracles Poetic Frustration Privacy Parts Untitled work Rhyme Without Reason Riptide SAfe Specs Seek, But Do Not Find Untitled Dr. Seuss Small, Light, and Breakable Sony Takes Root Spamalot The State of Tech Stemming the Flow The 0 in 2.0 The Best in Malware The Big Cloud The Family that Censors Together The Hack in the Cap Plays Mac The Maltese Virus The Maltese Window Cleaner The Norman Invasion The Speeding Card The Sporting Life Update Down Vista Resister VoIP at Linksys Demo Whois on First World Wide Waste

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803767
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<p>Notes for two speeches given by Lincoln Spector: Effects fo the Year 2000 Problem on the Wintel Duopoly's Control of Internet Commerce in the International Marketplace for Multmedia Mindshare - or - How do we get these damn things to work? Garbage</p>

Type
Document
Format
Word Document
Catalogue number
102803768
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Catalogue number
102809075