Arnold Spielberg, a pioneering computer designer who encouraged his only son, Steven Spielberg, to become a filmmaker, has died.
He was 103. Spielberg died Tuesday of natural causes in Los Angeles, his family announced. In 1960, Arnold Spielberg helped design the GE-225 mainframe computer that enabled researchers at Dartmouth College to develop the coding tool known as BASIC, which ushered in the era of personal computers. "I remember visiting the plant when dad was working on the GE-225," Steven said in 2015. "I walked through rooms that were so bright, I recall it hurting my eyes.
Dad explained how his computer was expected to perform, but the language of computer science in those days was like Greek to me. "It all seemed very exciting,.
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