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 SyntauriComputer Chronicles Revisited, Part 15 -- Space Shuttle, Excalibur, Pinball Construction Set, and Dr. J vs. Larry BirdComputer 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-GriffithsDownload this podcast (MP3)

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