Levy_S-Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution

Richard GreenblattSingle-minded, unkempt, prolific, and canonical MIT hacker who went intonight phase so often that he zorched his academic career. The hacker'shacker.John HarrisThe young Atari 800 game hacker who became Sierra On-Line's starprogrammer, but yearned for female companionship.IBM PCIBM's entry into the personal computer market which amazingly included abit of the Hacker Ethic, and took over.IBM704 IBM was The Enemy, and this was its machine, the Hulking Giantcomputer in MIT's Building 26. Later modified into the IBM 709, then theIBM 7090. Batch-processed and intolerable. Jerry Jewell Vietnam vetturned programmer who founded Sirius Software.Steven JobsVisionary, beaded, non-hacking youngster who took Wozniak's Apple II,made lots of deals, and formed a company that would make a billiondollars.Tom KnightAt sixteen, an MIT hacker who would name the Incompatible Time-sharingSystem. Later, a Greenblatt nemesis over the LISP machine schism.Alan KotokThe chubby MIT student from Jersey who worked under the rail layout atTMRC, learned the phone system at Western Electric, and became alegendary TX-0 and PDP-1 hacker.Efrem LipkinHacker-activist from New York who loved machines but hated their uses.Co-founded Community Memory; friend of Felsenstein.LISP MachineThe ultimate hacker computer, invented mostly by Greenblatt and subjectof a bitter dispute at MIT.