[samstave]

When I was a kid in the 80s - I convinced my dad he needed a 286 for his construction company - so he could do his books. And he'd need a modem - its the new fax.

(This was so I could play populous, BBS to San Jose and get Grounded for a month for running the phone bill up to 926 for long distance calling into PCLink...

My dad yelled at me for playing video games "WHAT THAT EVER GUNNA DO"

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years later I left my shift at Intel running the game lab.. to meet my dad for dinner.

He apologized to me for telling me that games and computers would never do anything.

I was touched he remembered.

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These dumb olympiads will never amount to much, id bet.