You may have read about the apocryphal Mel the Programmer on the net...
Well it appears that Mel Kaye was a real person, was a master programmer
for the Royal McBee Corp, and wrote little things like boot code for the
LGP-30. Here's some substantiating factoids.
http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/mel-the-programmer.html
Thanks again to Bob Lilley for the pointers.