Origin story

I have always had an interest in computers. I took some summer computer classes at our area vo-tech school when I was in elementary school. One of the highlights was getting to play games at the end of class. These games were text based–choose your own adventure games that involved knights and dragons. Those were the days of green phosphors on a black background computer terminals. No OS with a graphical interface like we are use to today. During my senior year of high school, I took a basic programming class. I remember one of my projects I created an animated Jayhawk comprised of type characters. I am guessing that we used Basic for programming but I am not really sure. I had that on a “floppy” floppy disk and have no idea if it is still in my possession. Early in high school, my family got a Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10 computer that hooked up to the TV as a monitor. You could buy cartridges similar to the old video game cartridges for Atari or Nintendo to add functionality to the…