Well, in the mid-1960's one of those GE-225 systems that his dad designed found its way to my local school district here in little ol' Altoona, PA. From my first programs in 1967 (junior high, a rare opportunity at that time!), I was able to study programming during three years of high school, move on to get my CompSci degree, and then find decent work. Since those early GE days I've worked with Honeywell, DEC, IBM mainframe, PC's and client/server, web apps, and most recently -- cloud and managed services. I never became rich, but when I retired last year I had 40 years of working at something I enjoyed, and figure I could have been much poorer without people like Spielberg's dad, the staff at Dartmouth, and some kindly, unknown folks at GE and IBM who often shipped me large packets of manuals just for the asking. It seems to me that nothing much gets done without somebody initially having capital -- other than the poorer getting REALLY poorer.
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Well, in the mid-1960's one of those GE-225 systems that his dad designed found its way to my local school district here in little ol' Altoona, PA. From my first programs in 1967 (junior high, a rare opportunity at that time!), I was able to study programming during three years of high school, move on to get my CompSci degree, and then find decent work. Since those early GE days I've worked with Honeywell, DEC, IBM mainframe, PC's and client/server, web apps, and most recently -- cloud and managed services. I never became rich, but when I retired last year I had 40 years of working at something I enjoyed, and figure I could have been much poorer without people like Spielberg's dad, the staff at Dartmouth, and some kindly, unknown folks at GE and IBM who often shipped me large packets of manuals just for the asking. It seems to me that nothing much gets done without somebody initially having capital -- other than the poorer getting REALLY poorer.