> Why, Oh Why, couldn't Daddy have sat me in his lap as a child and read to me > stock market reports or lines of computer programming? I'd have soooo much > more money now... :) Along with a healthy dose of bedtimes stories, computer programming was part of my ubringing. At about age 7 or 8 I wrote my first program with my mother alongside watching me hunt and peck on a dusty, already "old" Atari 800. We made a lovely little game wherein you had to guess a number between 1 and 100 with help after each guess (i.e. guess higher or guess lower). I was entranced. But .... years later I shunned the Silicon Valley and professional computing. I'm still fascinated though that with only a few minutes of typing I can make an old Radio Shack TRS-80 spit out random colours and beeps. =) In other words, be careful what you wish for. =) Maybe in a couple of years when I'm teaching my first intro computing course I'll drag out my old Atari. -S. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. : Steven Gabriel -- sgabriel@willamette.edu : :-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-: : "Sitting quietly doing nothing, : : Spring comes and the grass grows by itself." : '-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-`