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I wanted to make millions!

I may have told you this before, but I wanted to be a computer programmer. I would have been nine years old and I decided I was going to get rich by writing some games and then selling them. That was the plan. Write games. Sell them. Get rich.

The problem was I couldn’t really program computers there wasn’t a huge market for Dragon 32 software: the machine I was rocking at that point. In fact, I never really got good at writing software. My highlight was something that converted Centigrade into Fahrenheit. I was really proud of that.

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