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Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

Who's Who The Wizards and their Machines

Bob Albrecht Found of People's Costers to coalvanized hardware hackers

Building this kit ure out what to DO with it

Apple II ][ Steve Wozniak's friendly, flaky, good-looking co industry

Atari 800 This hoah the company that made it was loath to tell you hoorked

Bob and Carolyn Box World-record-holding gold prospectors turned software stars, working for Sierra On-Line

Doug Carlston Corporate laho chucked it all to form the Broderbund software company

Bob Davis Left job in liquor store to becoame ”Ulysses and the Golden Fleece”

Success was his downfall

Peter Deutsch Bad in sports, brilliant at math, Peter was still in short pants when he stubled on the TX-0 at MIT--and hacked it along with the masters

Steve Do, and later wrote the ”Targe” game on the Sol which entranced Tom Snyder

John Draper The notorious ”Captain Crunch” who fearlessly explored the phone systearettes eonmaster who copy-protected On-Lines disks at his whim

Chris Esponosa Fourteen-year-old follower of Steve Wozniak and early Apple employee

Lee Felsenstein Forinary science-fiction novel, he designed coure in Bay Area hardware hacking in the seventies

Ed Fredkin Gentle founder of Inforraure to hackers

Gordon French Silver-haired hardware hacker whose garage held not cars but his homebrewed Chicken Hawk co

Richard Garriott Astronaut's son who, as Lord British, created Ultima world on computer disks

Bill Gates cocky wizard, Harvard dropout rote Altair BASIC, and complained when hackers copied it

Bill Gosper Horwitz of couru of the Hacker Ethic and student of Chinese restaurant le-minded, unkeht phase so often that he zorched his acade Atari 800 garammer, but yearned for female companionshi+p