Tech Model Railroad Club-Peter Samson

Peter Samson was born in Fitchburg Massachusetts

1941

MIT students formed the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC). It was located in building 20

1946

Tech Model Railroad Club

Period: 1946 to 1978

Peter Samson Started School at MIT

1958

Peter Samson was a member of the TMRC since his first week at MIT (Levy,6)

1958

Peter Samson attended his MIT traditional welcoming lecture (Levy 6)

1958

Peter Samson gains key to to club room after logging in 40 hours of work on the layout. He completed his 40 hours within a week of being at MIT (Levy 8)

1958

Peter Samson was introduced to the interactive wonders of the TX-0 and PDP-1 computers

1958

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Peter Samson Started School at MIT

1958

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Peter Samson vowed to find out how the massive matrix of wires, relays and crossbar switches worked at MIT worked (Levy,6)

1958

Peter Samson was one of the worst offenders of doing more sandping and less reading of Robert's rules of order (Levy 25)

Nov 24, 1958

MIT offered their first course in programming that a freshman could take

1959

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Peter Samson explored the uncharted maze of laboratories at MIT (Levy 17)

1959

Peter Samson programs the TX-O to perform 1 bit bach music

1959

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Peter Samson light pen controlled GUI-Software for TX-O.3 Channels

1960

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Expensive planetarium star displayed for space war

1962

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Peter Samson joined DEC and contributed key architectural concepts to the PDP-6 computer and wrote the first FORTRAN compiler for that machine

1964

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Peter Samson programmed the PDP=-6 with the complete schedules of New York Subway systems and use it interactively on line to win the competition for traveling through the entire system in minimum time

1967

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Peter Samson Samson joined Systems Concepts, Inc. in San Francisco and became Director of Marketing and Director of Program Development

1970

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Peter Samson was in charge of manufacturing engineering for many hardware products, including the Central Memory subsystem for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer complex at the NASA/Ames Research Center

1975

http://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/peter-samson/

Peter Samson designed systems of concepts of digital synthesizer for CCRMA

1977

http://www.computerhistory.org/events/bio/peter,samson