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The RESISTORS Were Teenage Hackers and Computer Pioneers - IEEE Spectrum

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In the 1960s, before PCs and the Internet were a thing, the RESISTORS were O.G. computer hackers, learning to code on old mainframes in a New Jersey barn.

History of Technology Magazine Feature Computing February 2026 How the RESISTORS Put Computing into 1960s Counter-culture Teenage nerds in New Jersey were hacking before the PC and the Internet W. Patrick McCray 12 Dec 2025 11 min read Vertical The RESISTORS bonded over their shared love of computers and often met at the home of their mentor, Claude Kagan. The group shown here includes Chuck Ehrlich, Gail Warner, Daryl Bailey (at keyboard), and Barry Klein (back to camera). Chuck Ehrlich In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by

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