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> Not everyone agrees to who belongs in the pantheon, but for them there are fictional hackers, like Mel Mel wasn't fictional. Melvin Kaye was an application p
by slavik81 4y ago
> Not everyone agrees to who belongs in the pantheon, but for them there are fictional hackers, like Mel
Mel wasn't fictional. Melvin Kaye was an application programmer at Librascope, and there's a photo of him in the company newsletter. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/macho-programmers-drum-memory-and-a-forensic-analysis-of-1960s-machine-code-6c5da6a40244/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/macho-programmers-drum-mem...
- JonChesterfield 4y agoThere was quite a long period where he was known to be fictional though, probably including when the OP was written. Which if anything makes listing Mel within the pantheon more appropriate.