My dad was a mechanical engineer. One of my first memories is playing Hunt the Wumpus on a SYM-1 with him. Later, we had a Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, etc.

My dad was a mechanical engineer. One of my first memories is playing Hunt the Wumpus on a SYM-1 with him. Later, we had a Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, etc. I taught myself BASIC. It was really cool to be able to create so easily. Just turn the computer on, and start typing. Then I got a job writing BASIC around the time I was in high school, and by the time I went to college, I was lucky, knew what I wanted to do, and got accepted into the Computer Science program as a freshman.