The Timeline of Peter Samson By morganojohnson 1958 Joins Tech Model Railroad Club 1959 Began to hack on the TX-0 computer 1959 Programmed the TX-0 to play music 1959 Codified TMRC slang into "An Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language’ http://tmrc.mit.edu/dictionary.html 1961 Programmed the constellations for Spacewar 1964 Joins the Digital Equiptment Corporation (DEC) 1967 Programmed the PDP-6 with complete schedules of the New York subway to win competition 1970 Joined Sytems Concepts, Inc. 1971 Programmed the first Chinese-character digital communication system 1975 Created Sytems Concepts Digital Sythesizer 1975 Begins working at NASA 1982 Begins working at Autodesk, Inc. 1994 Received first patent for apparatus and method for serializing and validating copies of computer software 2006 Built a player for the Computer History Museum that plays PDP-1 songs 2009 Patented the visual watermark