[ahmed_ds]

> I love these first hand accounts from the 80s.

Have you checked out Dave's Garage? [0] He was a Microsoft engineer dating all the way back to the MS DOS days, and he has plenty of stories like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/DavesGarage

[IntelMiner]

Dave had like three or four good stories but then realized it was easier to farm clicks by thumping his credentials while making absolutely trite content

Going from "I invented Task Manager and got Microsoft to send me the XP era source code"

To

"M1 VERSUS RASPBERRY PI DRAAAAAG RACE WHICH IS FASTER?"

[II2II]

I've enjoyed his series on the KIM-1, something that he wasn't personally involved with but is interesting nevertheless.

As for the trite content, only he knows the motivation behind that. I agree that thumping his credentials does take away from what would, in some cases, be interesting topics. Heck, someone with the right background could probably make that Pi/M1 "drag race" interesting (i.e. deep enough to contrast the architecture of the processors, rather than presenting numbers with a faux sportscaster voice).

[r12343a_19]

Often... people also have personal and professional interests.

They do not provide uni-dimensional entertainment for ages.