[GH85Carrera]

With my Commodore 64 I was looking for like minded friends and attended a local C-64 users meeting. I struck up a conversation with a guy that was younger than I was but he was into cars like I was. He was brand new at computers and his C-64. He had only bought his a few days before. He was wanting to learn about his modem.

I got his phone number and we each went to our own houses. I had told him I would call. I gave him three lines of code to carefully type in. He hit enter and I told him to hang up and when the phone rings to flip the switch on the modem to allow it to get the call. His computer accepted a program I sent him that would run his modem. The 300 Baud modem came with no decent software.

When he received the program I hung up and called him back. I told him how to save that program to his floppy. He was beside himself with how cool that was. I sent him a list of local BBS phone number to call.

He said he forgot to go to bed that night playing with the BBSs. He ended up going to work for a local company MPI. They were bought by several companies and Seagate ended up buying them. He was writing the firmware for the hard drives and was moved to Ireland to help set up a plant there.