I think I might want to join, I was thinking of playing either

An obscure figure from the early days of computing, the kind of person who was occasionally interviewed in magezines about his latest projects that didnt actually seem to get anywhere. He started to go a little nuts and lost his credibility after he set his house on fire, he claimed "It was a minor setback" but experts believe that he didnt want to show off his machines that didnt actually work how he said they did.