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Schwab has been too engrossed gelling a unicycle to Giggle red balls on a computer screen to waste Lime leasing Mabell Leo s apotheosis to Semi wizardry is not untypical he s a native of the san Francisco Bay area where kids absorb Iho binary system almost before they team to stay afloat in hot tubs hacking of course is now worldwide but its Bethlehem was at Mit in Cambridge mass and then Silicon Valley Leo s rather was a Mechanic his Mother c House vile they produced a Leo if led with a vivid maj Inatio i walked to Mysell a lot and daydreamed usually with me m the starring role once upon a time wizardry Al an Early age was Apt to gel channelled into such nerdy outlets As violin lessons. Or Differentia calculus on a slide Rule. Fortuna toy for Biily coincided roughly Wilh thai of the personal computer where the master could fulfil his dreams on Iho wondrous keyboard of an electronic slave. If you could Allord one. Leo could t. But inc by Eshop a adjust become Matin county s first computer Siloro Leo became its first pest or embryonic wizard alias Recto adding Hacker. They were permissive. They let me run anything i played Pong in color on Art Apple Amaz Irig it was a Black Art to the ninth Grade Leo was introduced to the computer lab at san Rafael High. I spent every Sparo moment Iacre. 1 wailed to realize things in my imagination on the screen. I had a lot of Kooky ideas i could t realize in other ways. I rarely achieved this because my mind was three years ahead 61 the Leo made do buying $6 dish drives for paleozoic computers while waiting Lor the Industry to catch up he foam Vloto devised his St computer game while daydreaming in algebra class. Then i a radiated and. Suddenly was without a Macherie. A computer lard threw me out last what was an apprentice wizard to do Leo had had a newspaper route. Everyone or to found their paper precisely where they wanted it. Every Day such Diligence had earned him the scratch to buy a $1.200 Commodore computer when they isl came Oul. Computer games had been sweeping to country making thirteen age inventors almost As Rich As Rock stars or junk Bond salesmen. The computer s combination of Speed programmability and endless permutations makes it a natural for games by Quick minds. One of the first was concocted in the late 1950s by the three Young programmers a Bell laboratories in new Jersey Trie idea of Trie game dubbed Core War was to wipe out the memory of an opponent s computer. All cd fun of course. One of the players ironically was Robert Morris whose son is suspected of having infected a map computer network last All in what he May have thought was a Hack but others think a crack in the 70s. Computer games did Tor electronics what the rumble Seal once did for necking everyone wanted to try Oul the new technology. By the original Hacker i hic evolved first at Mit and described by Steven Levy in his landmark history. Hackers computers were a gift from the gods to Man s ingenuity and should be. Thus forevermore free. Money Gol its nose in die tent however with the rage for game software Donkey Pong Pac Man Frog Gar Levy dese bes now Ken Williams a College dropout came to found on line systems in the Sierra of Hills where pubescent and Post act Espenl programmers created fun and games in an atmosphere of anarchy and funny smelling smoke so said Backil risked toppling Inlo the Pacific Bob Davis a one time musician and hash House Cook signed on Aller meeting Williams in a liquor store where he was working and Laughl himself in become a wizard Gamo Programmer. John Karris facing a nor Dilick future As son of a banker in san Diego came i age just As games went to to
