Peter Samson

By kaileek

  • Peter Samson is born

    Peter Samson is born
    Peter Samson is born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts

  • MIT

    MIT
    Peter Samson attends his first semester at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Night Strolls

    Night Strolls
    Peter Samson spends his night strolling through Building 26 where he comes across the Electronic Accounting Machinery room, where he eventually took interests in computers and hacking

  • Other Samson Hacks

    Other Samson Hacks
    Samson was hacking the Mayan calendar and worked on his TX-0 music program which could create music with 3 different voices.

  • TMRC

    TMRC
    Samson joins the Tech Model Railroad Club during his first week of MIT

  • Samson Starts Hacking

    Samson Starts Hacking
    Samson created a program using binary in which music resided

  • Samson works with LISP

    Samson works with LISP
    Samson was recruited by McCarthy to work on the language LISP

  • Samson's Timetable

    Samson's Timetable
    Samson created a timetable for the TMRC, to smooth the flow of operating hours, he used the 7090 in FORTRAN

  • Samson works with Spacewar

    Samson works with Spacewar
    Samson creates a modification of Spacewar, aligned real life constellations to the game, as accurate as possible

  • Samson Drops out

    Samson Drops out
    Samson eventually dropped out of MIT to enter into the world of computers and the jobs offered to him as a hacker

  • The DEC's PDP-6

    The DEC's PDP-6
    Samson took part in the making of DEC's PDP-6 as he made sixteen registers for the first prototype for Project MAC

  • The Great New York City Subway Race

    The Great New York City Subway Race
    Samson started his subway project to find the fastest route in the New York City subway system, ultimately racing with another group of hackers with the same goal

  • Samson moves to System Concepts

    Samson moves to System Concepts
    He moved to the high-tech design and manufacturing side of computer businesses

  • The First Digital Chinese Character

    The First Digital Chinese Character
    Samson developed the first Chinese character on a digital communication system while he was Director of Marketing and Director of Program Development at System Concepts

  • Samson at Autodesk

    Samson at Autodesk
    Samson contributed to rendering, animation, Web browsing, and scripting languages

  • Samson moves to NASA

    Samson moves to NASA
    Samson oversaw manufacturing engineering for hardware including the central memory subsystem for the ILLIAC IV for NASA