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#27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur

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How Paul Parker Brothers Found a Bug in Ed's Mona Lisa

Mimona Lisa was the first electronic game accompanied by two part harmony music. Parker Brothers priced Ed's version of the game at $20 per cassette and was already shipping $4 million copies. The code for the game was contained in ROM, read-only memory chips which could not be reprogrammed. He learned how to program when he was really, really young but then kind of just forgot about it for a few years.

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