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I was lucky. When the micro came along, nothing that is done with them now was being done. Someone had to come up with all that stuff, and there weren't enough of us to go around. Obviously, much of what we did was on the cutting edge. It was ALL cutting edge. We designed our own hardware. Common peripherals were new inventions. It was a blast. Ink-jet printers were in 6-foot racks and sprayed a stream that was peturbed by an electric field. It's easy to say (it couldn't actually be otherwise): I had a machine somewhere, of some kind, that touched the life of nearly any average U.S. citizen you cared to point at, whether they knew it or not.
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