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It's also a bit of a tragic story. The PDP-1 was designed by Ben Gurley, an engineer at DEC. He took just 3.5 months to build the machine. Tragically, Gurley wa
by sgt 8y ago
It's also a bit of a tragic story. The PDP-1 was designed by Ben Gurley, an engineer at DEC. He took just 3.5 months to build the machine. Tragically, Gurley was later murdered in 1963 while eating dinner with his family, when a co-worker fired a rifle through the window of his house. The co-worker was later admitted to a hospital of the criminally insane, where he died.
- gist 8y agoWow. Here is a story about that story: https://www.informationweek.com/desktop/updikes-passing-recalls-brush-with-murdered-computer-designer/d/d-id/1076620 https://www.informationweek.com/desktop/updikes-passing-reca...