The Story of Mel (1983)

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There's also this site with a heavily annotated version which also links to an article about the real life Mel Kaye:

Very cool. It's nice to read more about this legend. I can't believe he was still around until 2018!

Just a shame he didn't seem interested in discussing it.

My favourite story from the Jargon File.

This version of ESR's is the best online because of the footnotes it includes about finding Mel.