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My dad was an IBM salesman in the late 70's to early 80's. We always had computers around the house, even before there were PCs.

I wasn't much interested in computers until I got to college. I just wasn't interested in following in my father's footsteps. Really, I didn't decide to add the BIS degree until i decided to show up a stoner friend who could hardly hack it.

I understood computers in high school, but I was more of what you would today call a hacker. Just some angsty loser kid who used computers for mischief. And without the internet to spread my brand of retribution, I had to make due messing up computers I could actually sit at. Probably the worst thing I did was delete all of the lines in the Autoexec.bat file on all of the computers in the computer lab at high school. As there was no network security, it was pretty easy, but I had to do them one at a time from my lab computer. Of course, it didn't cause any problems until they shut down the computers at the end of the day....