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Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy (C)1984 by Steven Levy

Chapters 1 and 2 of Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

Who’s Who

The Wizards and their Machines

 

Bob Albrecht

Found of People’s Computer Company who took visceral pleasure in exposing youngsters to computers.

 

Altair 8800

The pioneering microcomputer that galvanized hardware hackers.

Building this kit made you learn hacking. Then you tried to figure out what to DO with it.

 

Apple II ][

Steve Wozniak’s friendly, flaky, good-looking computer, wildly successful and the spark and soul of a thriving industry.

 

Atari 800

This home computer gave great graphics to game hackers like John Harris, though the company that made it was loath to tell you how it worked.

 

Bob and Carolyn Box

World-record-holding gold prospectors turned software stars, working for Sierra On-Line.

 

Doug Carlston

Corporate lawyer who chucked it all to form the Broderbund software company.

 

Bob Davis

Left job in liquor store to become bestselling author of Sierra On-Line computer game “Ulysses and the Golden Fleece.”

Success was his downfall.

 

Peter Deutsch

Bad in sports, brilliant at math, Peter was still in short pants when he stubled on the TX-0 at MIT—and hacked it along with the masters.

 

Steve Dompier

Homebrew member who first made the Altair sing, and later wrote the “Targe” game on the Sol which entranced Tom Snyder.

 

John Draper

The notorious “Captain Crunch” who fearlessly explored the phone systems, got jailed, hacked microprocessors.

Cigarettes made his violent.

 

Mark Duchaineau

The young Dungeonmaster who copy-protected On-Lines disks at his whim.

 

Chris Esponosa

Fourteen-year-old follower of Steve Wozniak and early Apple employee.

 

Lee Felsenstein

Former “military editor” of Berkeley Barb, and hero of an imaginary science-fiction novel, he designed computers with “junkyard” approach and was central figure in Bay Area hardware hacking in the seventies.

 

Ed Fredkin

Gentle founder of Information International, thought himself world’s greates programmer until he met Stew Nelson. Father figure to hackers.

 

Gordon French

Silver-haired hardware hacker whose garage held not cars but his homebrewed Chicken Hawk comptuer, then held the first Homebrew Computer Club meeting.

 

Richard Garriott

Astronaut’s son who, as Lord British,

created Ultima world on computer disks.

 

Bill Gates

Cocky wizard, Harvard dropout who wrote Altair BASIC, and complained when hackers copied it.

 

Bill Gosper

Horwitz of computer keyboards, master math and LIFE hacker at MIT AI lab, guru of the Hacker Ethic and student of Chinese restaurant menus.

 

Richard Greenblatt

Single-minded, unkempt, prolific, and canonical MIT hacker who went into night phase so often that he zorched his academic career. The hacker’s hacker.

 

John Harris

The young Atari 800 game hacker who became Sierra On-Line’s star programmer, but yearned for female companionship.

 

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