ABSTRACT
In 1965, computer labs were just a stone’s throw away in any direction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most labs were identical in appearance: minicomputers that flashed and hummed while students retrieved paper from teletypewriters. Harvey continued running LS’s computer center in an unorthodox way. In January 1982, Fenlason, Thome, and other students of Harvey’s made the 40-minute drive to Boston to attend the annual USENIX conference, a confluence of hackers and a show floor where software developers and hardware manufacturers unveiled new technologies. According to Thome, some of the students approached Toy and Arnold and asked for a favor. Fenlason has no recollection of the conference, nor any meeting with Toy or Arnold. While Ken Arnold could not recall meeting any of the LS computer gang, he did remember several requests for Rogue’s source code. Coincidentally, the completion of Hack aligned with Harvey’s departure from LS.
