Chronicles Revisited Podcast 10 — He Stopped Building Model Trains

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In the late 1970s, Will Harvey worked a summer paper route to help pay for his first computer, a Commodore PET. After trading up to an Apple II a few years later he developed Music Construction Set, which became one of the earliest hits for a small software startup called Electronic Arts. Harvey appeared on one of the first Computer Chronicles episodes to demonstrate his program while still in high school. He went on to a long career in the tech industry, while Electronic Arts used its “construction set” brand to establish itself as an innovator in entertainment software for microcomputers. Computer Chronicles Revisited, Part 3 – Music Construction Set and the Alpha Syntauri Computer Chronicles Revisited, Part 15 – Space Shuttle, Excalibur, Pinball Construction Set, and Dr. J vs. Larry Bird Computer Chronicles #103 – Computer Music (1983) Computer Chronicles #121 – Computer Games (1984) Pinball Construction Set (Bill Budge, 1982) Lancaster (Will Harvey/Silicon Valley Systems, 1983) Music Construction Set (Will Harvey/Electronic Arts, 1984) ‘Will Harvey: Musical Hardhat’ (Mary Eisenhart, MicroTimes, 1984) Adventure Construction Set (Stuart Smith/Electronic Arts, 1985) Racing Destruction Set (Electronic Arts, 1985) Software People: Inside the Computer Business (Douglas G. Carlston, 1985) The Immortal (Will Harvey/Electronic Arts, 1990) ‘Playing Catch-Up: Will Harvey’ (Frank Cifaldi, 2005) ‘Game 29: Adventure Construction Set (1984)’ (Chester N. Bollingbroke, The CRPG Addict, 2010) ‘The Six Children of EA’ (Alexander Smith & Jeffrey Daum, They Create Worlds, 2018) Podcast Music: ‘Scenic Detour’ by Melody Ayres-Griffiths