<story><title>The Story Of Mel</title><url>http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>The wikipedia entry (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Story_of_Mel&lt;/a&gt;) has even the link to the picture of Mel, whose name is discovered from the preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959). Then somebody discovered the group picture in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/1950_-_1959_files/560800%20Librazette.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.librascopememories.com&amp;#x2F;Librascope_Memories&amp;#x2F;1950_-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and there it is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zappa.brainiac.com&amp;#x2F;MelKaye.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acuozzo</author><text>I was first to find that image of Mel in the Librazette archives. In fact, the following post was my first on HN: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110883&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=3110883&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;More context: &lt;a href=&quot;http://librascopememories.blogspot.com/2012/03/59-mel-kaye-legendary-lgp-30-programmer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librascopememories.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;59-mel-kaye-l...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I did eventually manage to get in contact with Mel, but I scared him away, unfortunately. That&amp;#x27;s a story for another day... :-&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Story Of Mel</title><url>http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>The wikipedia entry (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Story_of_Mel&lt;/a&gt;) has even the link to the picture of Mel, whose name is discovered from the preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959). Then somebody discovered the group picture in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/1950_-_1959_files/560800%20Librazette.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.librascopememories.com&amp;#x2F;Librascope_Memories&amp;#x2F;1950_-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and there it is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zappa.brainiac.com&amp;#x2F;MelKaye.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>He looks much younger - and less bearded - than I&amp;#x27;d imagined when reading The Story of Mel countless times.  This changes my whole perspective on the story; the character of Mel transitions from a scruffy and disillusioned veteran to something of a youthful and rebellious hotshot.&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the Librazette link and photo; that&amp;#x27;s awesome.</text></comment>