Hackers | Heroes of the Computer Revolution | Complete Guide!

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Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution

• 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 best-selling 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.

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