This episode is simply a reading of the Story of Mel. I opened
last episode with an excerpt, but didn't feel right leaving it at
that. So, I present, the Story of Mel as written by Ed Nather and
preserved in the Jargon file.
Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.