Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 17, 2011 @09:25AM from the back-in-the-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Major names from the world of computing and technology such as Vint Cerf, William Gibson, Richard Stallman, Michael Dell and Hermann Hauser have shared their memories on their first computers and what inspired them to get involved with the computer. Highlight's include Cerf recalling his experience with the valve-based US air defense network Sage — as seen in Dr Strangelove — and Acorn co-founder Hauser building an eight bit computer out of marbles and a shoebox."

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Gibson's a cyberpunk pioneer.... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-17 09:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

...not a computer pioneer.
Hell, the man himself admitted he didn't know thing one about computers when he wrote 'Neuromancer.' They were magic boxes to him.