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Stewart Nelson decided to rewire MIT’s PDP-1 as a prank. Later, Margaret Hamilton tried to use the DEC-supplied DECAL assembler on the machine and it crashed re
by chmaynard 10y ago
Stewart Nelson decided to rewire MIT’s PDP-1 as a prank. Later, Margaret Hamilton tried to use the DEC-supplied DECAL assembler on the machine and it crashed repeatedly. The transcript points out that Hamilton is generally credited with doing brilliant work for NASA on the Apollo project. Did Nelson go on to do anything notable? Just curious.
- chmaynard 10y agoIf the length of one's Wikipedia page is any indication, Hamilton kicked a bigger dent in the Universe than Nelson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Nelson_(hacker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)