altair-basic

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Paul Allen person-bridges the vault's 1975 Altair BASIC cluster and its 2015 Semantic Scholar/Linnainmaa-citation cluster, invisible to embedding retrieval

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-27 · cross-domain-bridge, person-bridge, bridge-taxonomy, meta-vault, retrieval-blind-spot
Two uncredited programmers, sixty years apart, signed their work the same way software historians didn't connect — and Paul Allen independently called one of them 'a scribe from the Middle Ages'

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, colophon, diplomatics
Paul Allen's memoir Idea Man independently describes William Weiher — the programmer behind the earliest known software easter egg — as looking like 'a scribe from the Middle Ages'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, paul-allen, william-weiher, altair-basic