When I first got into computers, I lived about 30 minutes from his home town. In middle school. I was reading back issues of BYTE magazine, it was all technica

When I first got into computers, I lived about 30 minutes from his home town. In middle school. I was reading back issues of BYTE magazine, it was all technical jargon noise, but I just kept at it until I got the hang of it. This was back when BYTE still published full source code for featured programs, and there was Steve Ciracia's Circuit Cellar for electronic schematics and timing diagrams. The computer industry seemed a different, glamorous planet from south-Georgia (not the island) slash pine swampland. And it was... but not that far from Carrollton. Dang.