The legally blind son of a janitor, he wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.
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Bing Newcomb, Whose Code Transformed Stock Trading, Dies at 79
The legally blind son of a janitor, he wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded the company that became E*Trade.