Yeah, I really lucked out. The Vic was super old when I first got it, and we got an XT not too long later. Vic-Basic (3k of RAM) to XT (640k of RAM) was a huge

Yeah, I really lucked out. The Vic was super old when I first got it, and we got an XT not too long later. Vic-Basic (3k of RAM) to XT (640k of RAM) was a huge jump. Then the owner of a local computer store I hung out at gave me a copy of Power-C for $20 I think. Not too long after, we got a Pentium 133 and I had a great box to dual-boot Linux on. It was a town of 35k people, and I just happened to luck out and meet the right ones at the right time. The owner of the computer store that gave me the C compiler ended up hiring me for summers and weekends through high school, and then had me back for the first couple years of summer during univeristy too.