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Peter Samson is born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts -
Peter Samson attends his first semester at Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Peter Samson spends his night strolling through Building 26 where he comes across the Electronic Accounting Machinery room, where he eventually took interests in computers and hacking -
Samson was hacking the Mayan calendar and worked on his TX-0 music program which could create music with 3 different voices. -
Samson joins the Tech Model Railroad Club during his first week of MIT -
Samson created a program using binary in which music resided -
Samson was recruited by McCarthy to work on the language LISP -
Samson created a timetable for the TMRC, to smooth the flow of operating hours, he used the 7090 in FORTRAN -
Samson creates a modification of Spacewar, aligned real life constellations to the game, as accurate as possible -
Samson eventually dropped out of MIT to enter into the world of computers and the jobs offered to him as a hacker -
Samson took part in the making of DEC's PDP-6 as he made sixteen registers for the first prototype for Project MAC -
Samson started his subway project to find the fastest route in the New York City subway system, ultimately racing with another group of hackers with the same goal -
He moved to the high-tech design and manufacturing side of computer businesses -
Samson developed the first Chinese character on a digital communication system while he was Director of Marketing and Director of Program Development at System Concepts -
Samson contributed to rendering, animation, Web browsing, and scripting languages -
Samson oversaw manufacturing engineering for hardware including the central memory subsystem for the ILLIAC IV for NASA