I actually got to visit the Twin Towers the weekend before they went down. Been to the offices of Cantor/Fitzgerald, guess I am glad I did not get that job working for the consultants working with Cantor/Fitzgerald. Miss the time before 9/11, wake call is a bit too harsh. I remember seeing the vietnam war on tv when I was a kid way back when. Went to college and got to mess with computers, networked and not. Remember when bulletin boards like Bix were the thing. Personal computers weighed 50 pounds and had teeny tiney monitors (Pet computers). Played Dark castle on macs, Apple panic on apple II machines and castle wolfenstien on pcs. Did do Cobol, PL/1, Apple (6502) and Pc (8088,8086) assembly languages and Basic. "C" was the hot new language and I jumped on the bandwagon because basic was too slow and assembly language was a pain to work with. Can't really write anything big with it, had to write my own linker so I could finish my games. You could get a "C" compiler on 2 floppy discs back then. Eventually got a job from a newspaper ad to work at a small multimedia company. Got introduced to macs and 3d apps like Strata 3d, Bryce and Photoshop. Its sad when people do not care or are uninterested in the past, that means that they will be doomed to repeat it.