Back in 1982, while I was in the 8th grade at Birney Middle School, I had my first computer class. The school had just received about twenty new Apple II+ machines and we were learning to program using AppleBasic. I took to the Apple very quickly, and my friends and I soon developed game copying rings and programming clubs. Back in 1982, I wanted nothing else. Steven Jobs's concept of putting the computers in school classrooms at cost was genius. Their placement was a perfect ploy to entice parents to buy them at home since their student children were already strong users from school experience. This marketing approach was further expanded when the first Mac computers were introduced in 1984. By the time I started college in 1986, the dorm computer centers were full of them. The Mac was a huge step in user interface quality, being young and eager drove me to integrate the technology and to become proficient in their operation. While in college at The University of Michi
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