The Story of Mel (unsung genius from when programmers were men)

Mel seems to come up every few months :-)<p><a href="http://searchyc.com/story+of+mel" rel="nofollow">http://searchyc.com/story+of+mel</a>

I don't think he can be called unsung given the frequency at which his story shows up on sites like hn and reddit...

Title is on the sexist side and exclusive of female programmers. To a female reading this, you would be glamorizing the time when they weren't in this field.<p>You can glorify past events without being sexist. Try setting up a true scottsman.

While there are many tales of retro-computing, ROMs to download to play old favorite games, articles about "the good old days", and links to computer history museums, this is by far and away my favorite. And the things mentioned in it predate my career by a good bit. All hail Mel!

I'm not voting for this only because I've seen it on HN before, but if you haven't, it's a true must-read.

I had written a blog entry inspired by this article (but not entirely related to it)<p><a href="http://lifeasparesh.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-obsession-with-your-nostalgia.html" rel="nofollow">http://lifeasparesh.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-obsession-with-y...</a>