[zubairq]

Pretty cool.. I had no idea Hal was such a hacker on the personal computers in those days... makes me think of Bitcoin whenever I hear Hal mentioned

[WalterBright]

He wasn't hacking. Hal worked for Aph, and Aph contracted with Mattel to deliver console game cartridges.

There was once a contest between Caltech and MIT. Each was to write a program to play Gomoku, and they'd play against each other. Hal wrote a Gomoku-playing program in a weekend, and it trashed MIT's program.

It was never dull with Hal around.