On Mar 13, 2014, at 3:24 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James R Cutler > <james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote: >> As of early 1960's - See history of WTBS, Ralph Zaorski, Dick Gruen, >> Alan Kent, and many others - The then current usage of "hacker" was >> simply one who produced a "hack" - an unusual or unexpected design >> or configuration or action which either did the same old thing done more >> simply/elegantly or which did something new or unexpected altogether. > > Hi James, > > I'm afraid my google-fu doesn't reach back to the 1960's. You don't > happen to have a handy reference do you? > > Regards, > Bill Herrin
I carry that data in wet storage, interfaced via voice or eyes-on-screen/fingers-on-keyboard. I haven’t been on the MIT campus for more than a few minutes since late 1963. Regarding the Wikipedia entry for “Hacker”: The TMRC/MITAL history ignores the pioneering audio systems work that came out of WTBS (pre-sale to Ted). Ralph Zaorski and Barry Blesser were the best around at that.
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