On Mar 13, 2014, at 3:24 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James R Cutler <james.cutler@consultant.com> wrote:
As of early 1960's - See history of WTBS, Ralph Zaorski, Dick Gruen, Alan Kent, and many others - The then current usage of "hacker" was simply one who produced a "hack" - an unusual or unexpected design or configuration or action which either did the same old thing done more simply/elegantly or which did something new or unexpected altogether.
Hi James,
I'm afraid my google-fu doesn't reach back to the 1960's. You don't happen to have a handy reference do you?
Regards, Bill Herrin
I carry that data in wet storage, interfaced via voice or eyes-on-screen/fingers-on-keyboard. I haven’t been on the MIT campus for more than a few minutes since late 1963. Regarding the Wikipedia entry for “Hacker”: The TMRC/MITAL history ignores the pioneering audio systems work that came out of WTBS (pre-sale to Ted). Ralph Zaorski and Barry Blesser were the best around at that.