Man searching for 12 year old "computer genius" from 1979

I've stumbled on this guys Youtube channel in the past few days, it seems like he is starting to blow up in popularity out of nowhere. His name is David Hoffman and he created a few television specials in the late 70s and early 80s for public television. These specials mostly consisted of him going around America and filming average everyday people on a slew of topics relating to the changing times. His videos are fascinating. Some of the people he captured made incredibly brilliant predictions about things that would eventually happen.



The one above is particularly cool though. Hoffman went though his film outtakes and found footage of this unknown 12 year old boy using a computer at a local shop programming his own game on a cassette tape. His father shows an incredible sense of pride in him and marvels how his son can do something he cannot comprehend. At one point he crashes the computer and the shop owner has to shut it off and on for him, the shop owner can be found in another video and makes some incredible predictions about future life.



Hoffman has no idea what the boys name is, other than in the video his dad calls him "Jay". He is looking for the internets help. His Dad's name may have been Jeff or Geoff or Chad. The boy was born in 1967 and would now be 50 years old if still alive