Mine was spending four days straight building a MS Windows style environment in x86 assembler. The assignment was Conway's Game of Life so I went a little over

Mine was spending four days straight building a MS Windows style environment in x86 assembler. The assignment was Conway's Game of Life so I went a little overboard. It lead to a research job on parallel computers, access to amazing computer labs, a project for The Rolling Stones, and probably my first programming job. Thanks to friends that brought me food during the effort. A close second was when my dad brought home an XT computer and Pascal books.