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02 与计算机结缘

So, how did you get involved, uh, with personal computers?

En. . . Well, I ran into my first computer when I was about 10 or 11.

Uh, and it's hard to remember back then but I'm, I'm no fossil now, I'm no fossil.

So when I was 10 or 11, that was about 30 years ago and no one had ever seen a computer.

To the extent they'd seen them, they'd seen them in the movies.

And they were really big boxes with whirring.

For some reason they fixated it on the tape drives, as being the icon of what the computer was, or flashing light somehow.

And, so nobody had ever seen one of very mysterious, very powerful things that did something in the background.

And uh, so to see one and actually get to use one was a real privilege back then.

I got into NASA Ames Research Center and I got to use a time sharing terminal.

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