yes, my last job hired a developer that was very successful (million dollar plus business) in the early days of personal computing selling educational software,

yes, my last job hired a developer that was very successful (million dollar plus business) in the early days of personal computing selling educational software, disk duplication services and other mid-80's software stuff. bad financial management/planning later made him look for work :( He was a stand up guy, and was very thorough about all he did, and read every bit of documentation you gave him, since the job was an online school, they made him get a degree eventually... interesting bit, he said he got into programming because he wanted to get out of the navy. the base had just bought a big expensive computer but didn't have anyone to work on it. he said he could do it and learned enough over the weekend to get started. great guy to work with too.