Computers and Vocation

I got my first computer when I was about 5 or 6 years old, living in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.  It was a Commodore 64 that my Dad bought at the Army PX for about $300.  It was around 1983.  Even though I was quite young, I distinctively remember seeing it on display with the box which promised all sorts of wondrous capabilities.  I begged my Dad for it, thinking it’d be a hard sell.  But, he bought it (now that I’m also a father I realize that it probably wasn’t a hard sell at all, I’ve fou...