Call for votes

[keenan royle]

This is a call for votes for the group: alt.folklore.computers

Every year hundreds of posts are generated asking questions about
something out of the history of computing.  Many more postings contain 
the a few right answers and lots more wrong answers.

I can not think of any other feild that has been around for such a short
period and has such a rich set of folk stories and legends.

I think this topic deserves its own group.


How many times have you heard the questions:
o  What was the NASA flight that blew up because of a mistyped punctuation
   in a Fortram program?
o  What is the real origin of the term "bug".

Don't you have any stories to share about:
o  Exploding card readers.
o  Software thrashing hardware to the point of overheating and erupting
   flames.


So what does everyone think?  I know as an alt group this does not
really need a formal vote and discussion but I would like some
feedback.