Whiz Kids
Speaking with a reporter today, I was asked what originally got me interested in computers?
It was this cover story in Time Magazine:
From the May 3rd, 1982 issue.
I thought the world they described in the article was fascinating, liberating, would enable you to do things so compelling with the information out there.
So I went to the local Radio Shack every day after school to play with the TRS-80. The guys there, who were extraordinarily nice and patient, taught me BASIC. One of the first full-fledged programs I wrote was a really bad stock market simulation game. But, hey, it was a start!
