Welcome to the 1990s!

Indeed, welcome!

I really dislike writing about myself, so I'll just write about this site.

The primary reason for the existence of this site is to document various useful things for various retro operating systems and hardware. The retro design itself is a deliberate choice, so that I can easily obtain the information while using ancient browsers.

The site itself is being hosted on a virtual machine running Debian GNU/Linux, with support from Perl.

What is a HAKMEM?

The term "HAKMEM" comes from a 1972 MIT technical report "memo" known as AI Memo 239.

This memo contained a variety of useful hacks and algorithms and was simply called the "hacks memo" which, when named to fit within the 6 character PDP-10 file name limit of the machine on which it was written, would be written "HAKMEM".

Given this site's true reason is to document anything useful regarding my collection of retro machines, where fixes will mostly be hacks of the gnarly and hairy variety, I thought the name fits.

Vital Statistics

For the interested, here's the vital statistics of the site: