My best friend when I was around 7-9 was the son of William & Mary's computer guy. This was back in the 80's when they probably only had 1 computer guy. After

My best friend when I was around 7-9 was the son of William & Mary's computer guy. This was back in the 80's when they probably only had 1 computer guy. After swimming I remember going there and being shown the mainframe and tape drives by my friend's dad and just loving it. They also had a computer room that was meant for students but no one used it. So we would go there and checkout games to play on their IBM 386's in monochrome. This went on for 2 summers if I remember correctly. Then on the third summer I showed up and suddenly the computer lab was full of students. And the damn grad-student guarding it wouldn't let me in. I remember his strange look when this loud mouthed 8 year old demanded to be able to use a computer. But I walked away dejected. I always had a computer around the house growing up because my parents are teachers and they saw them as learning tools. I went from TRS-80 to Apple-IIc to IBM 286, 386 and on and on. But I really fell in love with these infernal machines in the basement of Small Hall on the W&M campus.