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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Some of you definitely go back further than I do. I think I got my first computer in 87, and later bought a 2400 modem. I was totally hooked, though, and quickly made up for lost time, teaching myself everything I could.

The first time I saw one personal computer talking to another was at a friend's house. His modem was a 1200. I bought my 2400 a few days later and my life definitely took a different path starting that day. Until then the computer was part toy, part necessity. I'd snowed my way into a computer teaching job (based on my experience as a data-entry/word-processing instructor at the IRS), so I needed the computer so I could try to stay a day ahead of my students.