pirating (was: "Market" for old macs?)

[Jim Battle]

Jim Leonard wrote:

...
> When you're 16 and broke (I had to go to a friend's house to use a 1200 
> baud modem when his Dad was out of the house -- "5 miles, uphill, both 
> ways!"), you pirate.  

Jim,

You misspelled a few of words there:

	"you're"     --> "I was"
	"you pirate" --> "I pirated"

It is an easy mistake to make because spell checkers won't catch it.  Something 
that was undoubtedly true got needlessly turned into a provably false statement.

What did I do when I was 16, broken, and smitten with computers?  I had a spiral 
bound notebook where I wrote out BASIC programs, then rewrote them, and rewrote 
them.  Probably 1/3 of what I wrote ever got typed into a computer, partly 
because the "computer lab" was available to me for about 45 minutes of "face 
time" with the computer per week.  I wish I still had those notebooks to see 
what I was up to back then (1978-1980).