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Birth
Peter Samson was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts -
Samson joins The Tech Model Railroad Club
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MIT
During this year, he became a freshmen at MIT. -
PDP-1
Samson wrote the Harmony compiler which enabled users to code music with the PDP-1 -
TX-0
Samson is introduced to the TX-0 and given more freedom to experiment with programming. -
TMRC Dictionary
According to Mr. Samson, this was the time when he created his first edition of the TMRC Dictionary, while creating a second edition around a year later. It was a dictionary of TMRC words with definitions that were intended to be humorous with "the puns, irrelevant reflections of on TMRC culture -
Type Justifying Program
He wrote the TJ-2 that preceded to becoming the troff and nroff page layout design for the PDP-1 -
SpaceWar!
Samson wrote the Expensive Planetarium star display for the video game "Spacewar!" -
Samson joins the Digital Equipment Corporation
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The Subway Race
Used the PDP-6 to win an online contest designed to see who could travel the New York subway system the quickest -
Joined with Systems Concepts Inc
Became their Director of Marketing and Director of Program development (San Francisco, CA) -
Samson programmed the first Chinese-character digital communication system
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Samson manufactured engineering for ILLIAC IV supercomputer at NASA/Ames research center
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Samson Box
The earliest music synthesizer that he came up with that focuses on the audio for computers, designed for use by student composers. -
Autodesk Inc.
After working with NASA, he moved to work for Autodesk Inc., helping to create modules for animation, scripting languages, and such, as Autodesk Inc. was founded in 1982 by John Walker and became known for its rage of software for design, engineering, and entertainment -
The Computer History
member of the Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration team and a docent at the Museum, where he is in charge of restoring the PDP-1 computer
