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The Timeline of Peter Samson

By morganojohnson

  • Joins Tech Model Railroad Club

    Joins Tech Model Railroad Club

  • Began to hack on the TX-0 computer

    Began to hack on the TX-0 computer

  • Programmed the TX-0 to play music

    Programmed the TX-0 to play music

  • Codified TMRC slang into "An Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language’

    Codified TMRC slang into "An Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language’
    http://tmrc.mit.edu/dictionary.html

  • Programmed the constellations for Spacewar

    Programmed the constellations for Spacewar

  • Joins the Digital Equiptment Corporation (DEC)

    Joins the Digital Equiptment Corporation (DEC)

  • Programmed the PDP-6 with complete schedules of the New York subway to win competition

    Programmed the PDP-6 with complete schedules of the New York subway to win competition

  • Joined Sytems Concepts, Inc.

    Joined Sytems Concepts, Inc.

  • Programmed the first Chinese-character digital communication system

  • Created Sytems Concepts Digital Sythesizer

    Created Sytems Concepts Digital Sythesizer

  • Begins working at NASA

    Begins working at NASA

  • Begins working at Autodesk, Inc.

  • Received first patent for apparatus and method for serializing and validating copies of computer software

  • Built a player for the Computer History Museum that plays PDP-1 songs

    Built a player for the Computer History Museum that plays PDP-1 songs

  • Patented the visual watermark

    Patented the visual watermark