It’s a Good Thing That I Didn’t Take That Programming Job

It might have changed my life in a bad way

Photo by author. TRS-80 c. 1978

Back in the late ’70s, I was casting about looking for another job.

I knew more about computers than most people did back then; I had bought a TRS-80 and programmed it for games and to do some heat exchange calculations for a stack reclaim system I had been selling. When…