Supergeek

My box served me pretty well, and I finished my engineering degree. That Christmas, I started to play with my old Sinclair just for a change. I even learned a few things and wrote a game. I liked games, but I'm just not very good at writing them, so I would to challenge myself. One summer, I wrote two little games in Lotus 1-2-3 just to better learn its macro language. I soon started back to school to get a Masters degree in Computer Science. The aerospace industry in 1989 was not exactly the best job market, and I was now a tremendous computer geek, so it seemed natural to formalize it and be a certified supergeek. Soon, I got a job working at a small local computer store building PCs and LANs and doing custom programming. While I was learning several computer languages at school: Fortran, Pascal, C, assembly, Lisp, Prolog, I was programming at work in Forth, C, Visual Basic and Delphi. All while building computers and hooking up small networks. I was loving it. Once the game DOOM came along, we had some awesome LAN parties even before most people knew you could play the game with multiple players.

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