On Dec 1,  8:05, Joe Stevenson wrote:
 I am unfamiliar with "Mel the Programmer"
 What is he best known for (besides this recent information you 
cited)?
If you look at the page given below, and follow the first link, you'd
find the story.  It's very well known.
  On 11/30/2003 at 8:54 PM Tom Jennings wrote:
 >You may have read about the apocryphal Mel the Programmer on the 
net...
  >
 >Well it appears that Mel Kaye was a real person, was a master 
programmer
  >for the Royal McBee Corp, and wrote little things
like boot code for 
the
  >LGP-30. Here's some substantiating factoids.
 >
 >http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/mel-the-programmer.html 
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