Well this is a good question. And it is going to show my age! When I was just a teenager, 1980 to be exact. We had some teachers who were playing with some computers, apple and a CPM machine if I recall right was a cpm-80 based machine but to the exact name who knows.
Not long into the year the teachers who were also interested bought some vic-20's and commodore pets. And a group of us gave up our lunchtimes on the odd occasion to learn these machines. That got me into programming, mainly games. And I do not recall the name of the publication in those years, but it was dedicated to readers and their games. We did what we could to not just enter this code, but to manipulate and enhance these programs. Which them got me into the games industry, and eventually where I am now:-) What memories:-) -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 10:15 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Why did you get into computers? (was: churvii: a study in brainiacs) I spun this off into a new thread because it got me thinking........why did everyone here get into programming? Was it by choice? Did it just happen that way? Did you major in CS in college? Was it to make money? For me personally, I wanted a job that had 3 primary characteristics: 1) Made good money 2) Would be in demand for the foreseeable future and 3) Would allow me to work with minimal contact with other people I'm not a misanthrope, but I do really enjoy just shrinking into my own world sometimes and pounding out code without having to interact with a bunch of people to get stuff done. So.......how did everyone else get into this business? On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Adam Churvis < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only one correction: David is the one who is off the charts. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > President > Productivity Enhancement > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:09 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: churvii: a study in brainiacs > > > > so, david is highly intelligent, adam, well, you are off the charts... > > > > id like to know... how is your office setup? > > > > i see a bunch of churvii in one room, laughing at each other > > coding, responding to lists, laughing at each others posts, etc... > > > > am i way off? > > > > -- > > 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty > > seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner' > > > > robert deniro - heat (1995) > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259460 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
