Initially constructed by David Walden, September 2013, updated quarterly
(If you see errors in the list, please let me know: dave@walden-family.com).

The following list is organized by volume and issue. The goal of this list is to be a complete list in one place of the anecdotes published in the Anecdotes Department of the Annals, along with links to the anecdotes' issues' web pages at computer.out/annals. This perhaps will be useful for historians of computing. The following list also notes department editors at the point when their tenure started. (Anecdotes have also been told in the Annals as part of feature-length articles and in other departments, and those are not included.)

Having the full list of anecdotes in the Anecdotes Department in one place also makes clear the variety of topics covered in the Anecdotes Departent over the history of the Annals. I hope this variety reminds journal readers and others that they too may have anecdotes to offer.

I also have provided a brief note on writing an anecdote.

A couple of department statistics are included near the end of this web page.

Volume 1 (1979)

Calvin C. Gotlieb is founding department editor

1‑1	FORTRAN Comes to Westinghouse-Bettis, 1957
	Herb Bright

1‑2	Some Memories of EDSAC I: 1950-1952
	Sandy Douglas

Volume 2 (1980)

2‑2	Napier and Babbage
	Harry Nagler

2‑3	How Not To Conserve Memory Space (or What Elegance Is Not)
	David W. Thompson

2‑4	Recollections of the Early Days of Machine Tabulating
	Gary C. Kesler

Volume 3 (1981)

Henry S. Tropp takes over as department editor

3‑1	Origin of the Word Byte
	Werner Buchholz

3‑2	The Machine that Carried IBM into the Electronics Business
	Geoffrey D. Austrian

3‑3	Stories from the HOPL Banquet
	C.L. Baker, Grace Hopper, and anonymous

3‑4	An Impossible Program
	Christopher Strachey

3‑4	Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace
	Velma R. Huskey and Harry D. Huskey

Volume 4 (1982)

4‑1	The Adventures of a Blunder
	R.A. Brooker, S. Gill, and D.J. Wheeler

4‑1	Reminiscences of Los Alamos
	Eric A. Weiss

4‑1	Los Alamos from Below
	Richard P. Feynman

4‑1	Tales of Los Alamos
	Bernice Brode

4‑3	Notes from the Mathematical Centre
	W.L. van der Poel and Maurice V. Wilkes

4‑3	First SHARE 709 Committee Meeting
	C.L. Baker

4‑4	Alexander Craig Aitkin
	Garry J. Tee

4‑4	Leslie John Comrie
	Henry S. Tropp

4‑4	MAD Compiler
	Bernard A. Galler

Volume 5 (1983)

5‑1	Algorithmic Perfection
	Heinz Zemanek

5‑4	L.J. Comrie
	Henry S. Tropp

Volume 6 (1984)

6‑1	FORTRAN Anecdotes
	Henry S. Tropp

6‑2	Origin of the Word Bit
	Robert Price and Henry S. Tropp

6‑2	The Soviets and the ENIAC
	John Grist Brainerd

6‑3	The End of the ABC
	Robert M. Stewart

6‑4	Whence the “Bug”?
	Henry S. Tropp

Volume 7 (1985)

7‑1	Who Was the Mysterious Countess?
	Velma R. Huskey

7‑2	Jonathan Swift's Computing Invention
	Eric A. Weiss

7‑3	I/O in the IBM 709 Computer
	Bernard A. Galler

7‑3	A 1940 Word Processor
	P.M. Murphy

7‑4	Islamic Calendar
	Hans-Joachim Albinus

7‑4	Howard Aiken
	Isaac L. Auerbach

Volume 8 (1986)

8‑2	Computing Capacity
	Walter Carlson

8‑4	Britain's Real-Time Club
	Nancy Foy

8‑4	Recollections about IFIP People
	Leon Lukaszewicz

Volume 9 (1987)

9‑2	Babbage's Expectations for the Difference Engine
	Maurice V. Wilkes

9‑2	James Wilkinson (1919-1986)
	various

The third issue of 1987 was listed as issue 3/4

9‑3	Introduction (to the following five notes relating to MADDIDA)
	Henry S. Tropp

9‑3	The MADDIDA
	Michael R. Williams

9‑3	Personal Recollections
	Isaac Auerbach

9‑3	1982 Claude E. Shannon Lecture: Application Transforms to Coding and Related Topics
	Irving S. Reed

9‑3	The von Neumann Letter
	John von Neumann

9‑3	Interview with Irving S. Reed
	Bobbi Mapstone

Volume 10 (1988)

James E. Tomayko takes over as department editor

10‑1	Introduction (to the following)
	Bruce H. Bruemmer

10‑1	General Electric Enters the Computer Business
	George Snively

10‑2	Alan Turing in the Home Guard
	Peter Hilton

10‑2	Overcoming Murphy's Law
	Richard Louis Weiss

10‑2	Babbage and the Scheutz Machine at Dudley Observatory
	Alfred Van Sinderen

10‑3	Fast Predictors: Computers and the U.S. Presidential Elections (Introduction)
	James Tomakyo

10‑3	UNIVAC on Election Night
	A.F. Draper

10‑3	IBM Computers and the Election of 1960 (excerpts from an IBM report)
	IBM

10‑4	Example anecdotes from the first 10 volumes
	Various

Volume 11 (1989)

11‑1	The Windmill Computer—An Eyewitness Report of the Scheutz Difference Engine
	Ralf Bülow

11‑1	In Von Braun Country
	Herbert R.J. Grosch

11‑1	Origins of Terms
	John D. Elson

11‑2	Twenty Year Retrospective: The NATO Software Engineering Conferences
	Alan Perlis

11‑2	Thoughts on Software Engineering
	Bernard A. Galler

11‑2	My Thoughts on Software Engineering in the Late 1960s
	David Gries

11‑2	The NATO Conferences from the Perspective of an Active Software Engineer
	Doug Ross

11‑2	Remembrances of a Graduate Student
	Mary Shaw

11‑3	A Critical incident
	Lawrence W. Langley

11‑3	The first Port of UNIX
	Juris Reinfelds

11‑4	The Case Against Automatic Programming
	John A. N. Lee

Volume 12 (1990)

12‑1	Early Computer User Groups (an introduction to the following previously unpublished document from 1960)
	Bruce H. Bruemmer

12‑1	Computer User Groups, 1960
	Herbert S. Bright

12‑2	More on General Electric's Start in the Computer Business (an introduction to the following interview)
	James Tomayko

12‑2	Dr. Robert Johnson Interview (a February 7 1961 interview)
	Interviewer's name lost

12‑3	For the Record: Pioneering Days in British Computing
	A.S. Douglas

12‑4	The Evolution of Software Design Ideas
	David J. Koepke

Volume 13 (1991)

13‑1	Frontiers of Computing: A Tribute to Edsger Dijkstra on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
	J.A.N. Lee

13‑1	The “Project that Failed” that Succeeded
	Robert L. Glass

13‑3	The Tape Story Tapestry: Historical Research with Inaccessible Digital Information Technologies
	Shane Greenstein

13‑4	What is This, And, and That?
	Roy R. Weil

13‑4	The First Bug—Discussion
	John H. Palmer

13‑4	Thomas J. Watson Sr. and the Perfect Computer
	Harry Polachek

Volume 14 (1992)

14‑1	The Computer—A Philatelic Collection
	Menachem Lador

14‑2	LEO, the Pride of Lyons (reprinted from British Journal of Administrative Management, Dec. 1990)
	Peter Bird

14‑3	UNIVAC Trounces Its Own Creator
	Harry Polachek

14‑3	HAL 9000 (1992?-2001)
	Eric A. Weiss

14‑3	Favorite Hack
	Richard L. Wexelblat

Volume 15 (1993)

15‑1	Memories of Alan Turing
	Robin W. Addie

15‑2	Atanasoff at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory
	Calvin N. Mooers

15‑3	A Very Early Expert System
	Herbert A. Simon

15‑3	Unlocking Enigma's Secrets
	Vicki Moeser

15‑4	Solidac: An Early Minicomputer for Teaching Purposes
	Paul A.V. Thomas

Volume 16 (1994)

16‑2	The Babbage River
	Keith Smillie

16‑2	The Use of “Bug” in Computing
	I. Bernard Cohen

16‑3	Electronic Computer for Home Operation (ECHO): The First Home Computer
	Jay Sutherland

Volume 17 (1995)

17‑1	The Role of Computers in Education (discussion of a 1955 letter by the founder of Babson College)
	Jerome Kanter

17‑1	Babbage and Clements
	Paul Ceruzzi

17‑2	System 360 Floating-Point Problems
	Robert Rosin and Len Harding

17‑3	“Offense Calculator”
	Eric A. Weiss

17‑3	Remembering J. Pres Eckert
	Henry S. Tropp

Volume 18 (1996)

18‑1	The Life and Times of the Digital Computers Association (DCA)
	Walt Carlson

18‑3	Charles Babbage and the Anglo-American Copyright Dispute
	Brian Randell

18‑3	The Undersung Hero of Computing: The IBM 1400 Series
	Rudolph E. Hirsch

Volume 19 (1997)

19‑1	UNIVAC I, Serial 1—in duPont
	Walter M. Carlson

19‑1	Herman Hollerith's Historic Hilltop Home
	Eric A. Weiss

19‑2	The Controversial Replica of Leonardo de Vinci's Adding Machine
	E. Kaplan

19‑2	More on the UNIVAC I at Du Pont
	Walter M. Carlson

19‑2	Memories of the SWAC
	David Rutland

19‑4	A Tale of Assembly
	Neville Holmes

19‑4	The Katapayadi formula and the modern hashing technique
	A.V. Raman

19‑4	A Nano-Abacus
	IBM

Volume 20 (1998)

20‑1	Memories of the NATO
	Software Engineering Conferences

20‑1	Appendix: Masterpiece Engineering
	T.H. Simpson

20‑2	Experiences With Computer Graphics in the United Kingdom in the 1970s
	Brian Wyvill

20‑2	The ENIAC Patent
	Charles E. McTiernan

Volume 21 (1999)

21‑1	Nineteenth-Century Observatories and Chorus of Computers
	David Alan Grier

21‑1	A Computing Factory
	Michael R. Williams

21‑2	Fortran
	Edward G. Nilges

21‑4	Overcoming Pilot-Induced Oscillations in the Space Shuttle
	James E. Tomayko

21‑4	Case 5,656: L.J. Comrie and the Origins of the Scientific Computing Service Ltd.
	Mary Croarken

Volume 22 (2000)

22‑1	Ida Rhodes and the dreams of a human computer
	David Alan Grier

22‑2	The Origins of JSP and JSD: A Personal Recollection
	Michael Jackson

22‑2	TRADIC
	Frank S. Preston

22‑2	Lovelace-Babbage Letters Discovered in Newcastle
	Christopher Goulding

22‑4	Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852: What was her family name?
	J.A.N. Lee

22‑4	The Early Magnetic Drums
	Andrew D. Booth

Volume 23 (2001)

23‑1	Software design knowledge and Vincenti's categories of engineering knowledge
	Guy Tremblay

23‑2	The First Breach of Computer Security?
	David Alan Grier

23‑3	Origin of Virtual Machines and Other Virtualities
	Peter J. Denning

Volume 24 (2002)

Anne Fitzpatrick takes over as department editor

24‑1	Founding Atlantic Software
	Walter Brown

24‑1	The travails of Software Resources
	Robert V. Head

24‑1	Founding the ICP Directories
	Lawrence Welke

24‑2	A well-intentioned query and the Halloween Problem
	Philip L. Frana

24‑2	A software lineage
	Laurie Robertson

24‑2	The MESM and the monastery
	Anne Fitzpatrick and Boris N. Malinovsky

24‑3	Remembering the LFK Network
	Nils J. Liaaen and David C. Walden

24‑4	Recollections of the beginning of the time-sharing industry
	Richard L. Crandall

24‑4	CCITT meeting recommendations
	Robert Weissman

24‑4	Remembering some computers and languages
	Keith Smillie

Volume 25 (2003)

25‑1	Reminiscences of superconductive associative memory research in the former Soviet Union
	Simon Berkovich

25‑1	Vannevar Bush's network analyzer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Frank Preston

25‑1	Computers and urban security
	Jennifer S. Light

25‑1	Origin of the Term Minicomputer (only at history.computer.org/annals/extras/anec25-1.html)
	Rolf Sinclair

25‑2	Developing TELNET's Negotiated Options
	Bernard Cosell and David Walden

25‑3	On the origins of :-)
	David Alan Grier

25‑4	How did you first get into computing? (asked of 8 well known women)
	Janet Abbate

25‑4	A 1965 era spreadsheet
	Frank S. Preston

Volume 26 (2004)

26‑1	The birth of an era
	Joe E. Rogers

26‑1	Calvin Mooers—How he came to be known as the “click” man
	Bob Bemer

Laurie Robertson takes over as department editor

26‑2	Arlington Hall Station: The US Army's World War II Cryptoanalytic Center
	Laurie Robertson

26‑3	Relocation Bits
	Bernard A. Galler

26‑4	Origin of the Virtual Memory Concept
	Eike Jeseen

26‑4	Translating Computer and Calculator in common European languages
	Mario Aloisio

Volume 27 (2005)

27‑1	Early Data Reduction on the IBM Card Programmed Calculator
	Robert L. Patrick

27‑1	On the word Software
	Herbert Kanner

27‑2	Micro to Mainframe
	Stanley Mazor

27‑3	Googling History
	Laurie Robertson

27‑4	Reflections on the Difference Engine
	Andrew D. Booth

27‑4	The Founders of the ACM
	Eric A. Weiss

Volume 28 (2006)

28‑1	Getting Started in Consulting
	Robert Patrick

28‑2	My Father and the Second Generation of Computer Pioneers
	Phillip A. Laplante Jr.

28‑2	8 Bits of Irony
	Stanley Mazor

28‑3	Hardware Design in the Founding of Computer Science at CMU
	Jesse T. Quatse

28‑4	Taking Newspapers from Hot Lead into Electronic Age
	Mike Marcus and George Trimble

Volume 29 (2007)

29‑1	Computer Recollections: Events, Humor, and Happenings
	Walter F. Bauer

29‑2	Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development
	Stanley Mazor

Anne Fitzpatrick returns as department editor

29‑3	Design of an Early Minicomputer
	Herbert Freeman

29‑4	ENIAC as a Stored-Program Computer: A New Look at the Old Records
	Crispin Rope

Volume 30 (2008)

30‑1	Fairchild Symbol Computer
	Stanley Mazor

30‑2	The Engineer's Tale: The Founding of the Software Publishing Corporation
	John Page

David Walden takes over as department editor

30‑3	The Genesis of the Tenet 210: An Early Time-Sharing System
	Chuck Runge

30‑4	The Origin of the Winter Simulation Conferences
	Julian Reitman

Volume 31 (2009)

31‑1	The Birth of Link-State Routing
	John McQuillan

31‑2	Prototype Fragments from Babbage's First Difference Engine
	Denis Roegel

31‑3	Magnovox and Intel: An Odyssey
	Stanley Mazor and Peter Salmon

31‑3	The Early Days of the ARPANET
	Peter Kirstein

31‑4	The Humble Beginnings of TECO
	Dan Murphy

Volume 32 (2010)

32‑1	The Intel 8086
	Stanley Mazor

32‑2	Introduction
	David Walden

32‑2	Some Notes on Computing in Canada in the 1950s
	Keith Smillie

32‑2	Remembering the Digital Computer Association
	Robert L. Patrick

32‑3	The Network Information Center and Its Archives
	Elizabeth Feinler

32‑4	RAID: A Personal Recollection of How Storage Became a System
	Randy Katz

Volume 33 (2011)

33‑1	INWG and the Conception of the Internet—an eyewitness account
	Alex McKenzie

33‑2	The book Computer Structures: 40 years after-thoughts
	Gordon Bell and Dan Siewiorek

33‑3	Host Tables, Top Level Domain Names, and the Origin of Dot Com
	Elizabeth Feinler

33‑4	Editor's Note (on classic books in computing history)
	David Walden

33‑4	Computer and Thought, the back story
	Julian Feldman

33‑4	Online shopping in the 1980s
	Michael Aldrich

Volume 34 (2012)

34‑1	CTSS email and text messaging, 1965-1973
	Tom Van Vleck

Craig Partridge takes over as department editor

34‑2	The LOCOMAT Project: Recomputing Mathematical and Astronomical Tables
	Denis Roegel

34‑3	An Early Statistical Calculation
	Keith Smillie

34‑4	Early History of SQL
	Donald D. Chamberlin

Volume 35 (2013)

35‑2	SQL/DS: IBM's First RDBMS
	Hershel Harris and Bert Nicol

35‑2	The SQL Standard: How It Happened
	Donald R. Deutsch

David Walden returns as department editor

35‑3	Computer-Generated PhD Dissertations: An Early Experience
	Dennis Frailey

35‑4	Burroughs Algol at Stanford University, 1960-1963
	Robert Braden

Volume 36 (2014)

36‑1	War Stories of an IBM Salesman, 1974-1981
	James Cortada

36‑1	Times Have Changed
	Robert Patrick

36‑2	Early Token Ring Work at MIT
	J. Noel Chiappa

36‑3	What is a Computer? An Answer from the Past
	Tim Bergin

36‑4	My Corner of the Time-Sharing Innovation World
	Bo Lewendal

Volume 37 (2015)

37‑1	TENEX and TOPS-20
	Dan Murphy

37‑2	Doing History in the Olden Days, 1970s–1990s
	James Cortada

37‑3	Machines, Languages, and Computation at MIT
	Peter J. Denning and Jack B. Dennis

37‑3	The Story of SimH
	Bob Supnik

37‑4	A Mechanical Calculator for Arithmetic Sequences (1844–1852), Part 1
	Denis Roegel

Volume 38 (2016)

38‑1	A Mechanical Calculator for Arithmetic Sequences (1844–1852), Part 2, Working Details
	Denis Roegel

38‑2	Retrospective Computing and Consumer-Led Development
	Adam P. Spring

38‑3	Notes on the History of Fork and Join
	Linus Nyman and Mikael Laakso

38‑4	Before Torchi and Schwilgué, There Was White
	Denis Roegel

Volume 39 (2017)

39‑1	Early History of Computing in Switzerland: Discovery of Rare Devices, Unknown Documents, and Scarcely Known Facts
	Herbert Bruderer

39‑2	In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler
	Paul McJones

39‑3	Carries Stripped to the Bone: Episodes in the History of Coaxial Modular Digital Counters
	Denis Roegel

39‑4	The LISP 2 Project
	Paul McJones

Volume 40 (2018)

40‑1	The First Public Discussion of the Secret Colossus Project
	Michael R. Williams

40‑2	A Slice of Norway's Computing History
	Ingvar Lundh

40‑3	How Atex Helped an Industry Change the World
	Douglas Drane

40‑3	More about Atex
	Jonathan Seybold

40‑4	Studying IBM’s History When You Are Part of It
	James Cortada

40‑4	Publishing a Computer Graphics Book with Prototype Desktop Publishing Tools
	Robert F. Sproull

Volume 41 (2019)

41‑1	Flowcharting Templates
	Peggy Aldrich Kidwell

41‑1	A Novel Program for Philosophers to Study Computer Science
	David Hemmendinger

41‑2	Learning to Network
	Stephen Crocker

41‑2	Origins of the Domain Name System
	Oscar M. Bonastre and Andreu Veà

41‑3	Paul Brainerd, Aldus Corporation and the Desktop Publishing Revolution
	Suzanne Crocker

41‑4	Reflecting Back on the Lighthill Affair
	Maarten van Emden

41‑4	Software Recovery and Beyond: The MCM/70 Case
	Zbigniew Stachniak

Volume 42 (2020)

42‑1	Interleaf, Inc.—1981 to 2000
	Mark Dionne and David Walden

42‑2	Queens of Code (women at NSA)
	Eileen Buckholtz

42‑2	Learning from Prototypes
	Zbigniew Stachniak

42‑3	Preserving the History of the Software Industry
	Luanne Johnson

42‑3	In Search of Software History
	Burton Grad

42‑3	Finding Software Industry History
	Burton Grad

42‑4	The Origin of the “MIT License”
	Jerome H. Saltzer

Volume 43 (2021)

43‑1	On the Origin of Kerberos
	Jerome H. Saltzer

Alexander Magoun takes over as department editor

43‑2	Preserving the Past by Industry Participants
	James W. Cortada

43‑3	Linux and Supercomputing: How My Passion for Building COTS Systems Led to an HPC Revolution
	David A. Bader

43‑4	Sterling Software: An $8 Billion Success Story in the 1980s and 1990s
	Burton Grad

Volume 44 (2022)

44‑1	The History of Franz and Lisp
	Fritz Kunze, Lauren Kunze

44‑2	Working and Living at Bletchley Park
	Alexander B. Magoun

44‑3	“Well Paid for a Woman”: Gloria Hardman's 50-Year Career in Computing
	Philip Nel

44‑4	Challenges of Large-Scale Data Processing in the 1990s: The IPUMS Experience
	Diana L. Magnuson, Steven Ruggles

Volume 45 (2023)

45‑1	Building a Computer at the University of Padua, 1958-1961
	Maristella Agosti, Alberto Cammozzo, Francesco Contin, Silvio Hénin

Total anecdotes = 237     average of 5.4 per year


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