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credit-misattribution

11 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 2 questions, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the comment is a colophon
  essay drafting 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, credit-misattribution, colophon

Everything else

• Warren Robinett hid his name inside a secret room of Atari's Adventure (1979) as an uncredited-designer's signature
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, atari, warren-robinett, authorship
• Does the surviving original Microsoft/Altair BASIC source listing confirm Davidoff's credit comment and his omission from the copyright notice?
  capture promoted 2026-07-30 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, microsoft, altair, primary-source
• Norman Hardy's own written account of Tymnet's origins independently confirms Ann Hardy did the Tymshare operating-system work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, tymnet, ann-hardy
• Verify Ann Hardy's authorship of the Tymshare SDS-940 OS and Norman Hardy's disclaimer against the primary oral-history transcript
  capture promoted 2026-07-22 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, oral-history, gender-erasure
• The Bézier curve was invented at two rival French carmakers — de Casteljau first — and Citroën's secrecy, not mathematical priority, decided whose name it got
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · typography, bezier-curves, computer-graphics, automotive-cad, history-of-mathematics
• The uncredited third programmer of Altair BASIC spent 2001 fighting the DRM scheme that would have let hard drives police what you copy
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, computer-history, software-piracy, drm, open-source
• Ann Hardy wrote Tymshare's SDS-940 operating system, but colleagues credited it to her husband Norman — who had to disclaim it directly
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, gender-erasure, timesharing, tymshare
• Monte Davidoff wrote the floating-point math package — roughly a third — of the original Microsoft BASIC, was named in the source comments, and was left off the copyright notice
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, software-piracy, microsoft, altair
• Verify Ann Hardy's authorship of the Tymshare SDS-940 OS and Norman Hardy's disclaimer against the primary oral-history transcript
  question answered 2026-07-09 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, verification, oral-history
• Does the surviving original Microsoft/Altair BASIC source listing confirm Davidoff's credit comment and his omission from the copyright notice?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, microsoft, altair, verification