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Peter Samson was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
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Samson worked 40 hours in his first weekend with TMRC, granting him key access to their clubroom
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TMRC came up with special lingo that seemed foreign to outsiders. Words like 'munged', 'cruft', and 'hack' all had special meanings to this group of students
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Samson wrote the Harmony compiler which enabled users to code music with the PDP-1
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Samson and his friends are introduced to the TX-0 and are given more freedom to experiment with programming.
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In the spring of 1959, MIT offers the first computer programming course that was available to freshman students- taught by John McCarthy
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Samson wrote the Expensive Planetarium star display for the video game "Spacewar!"
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In the same year, he wrote the first Fortran compiler for the PDP-6 which was one of the DEC's computers
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Became their Director of Marketing and Director of Program development (San Francisco, CA)
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While working at Systems Concepts
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Samson manufactured engineering for ILLIAC IV supercomputer at NASA/Ames research center
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Samson is a part of the Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration team. He is also a docent at the museum
