Bill Thompson

And there was a lawyer that we worked for, his name was Phil Culp.

And he had a old 286 SX IBM and it was just sitting in his basement.

And I told my mom, I was like, hey, if I clean for like a month, can I have that computer?

Like he doesn't use it.

He's got a new 486 up in his place here.

And he instantly said I could have it.

And then that started me down the computer networking realm.

And like, look, how can I get this 286 to act like a 386?

Or how can I force it to run Windows?

Or how do I update the memory?

How do I do these things?

In this little town, Edinburgh, North Dakota, there was a guy who had a computer store in a basement of an old general store, and his name was Jeff Munsobraten.

And I would go there and ask him questions about computers and just start learning ins and outs on how do I update the RAM, how do I get memory better, how do I augment the storage, how can I force this thing to run Windows 3.1 so I could have a GUI instead of using a command line.

Do we mean graphic user interface?

Graphic user interface.

Yeah.

Yeah, sorry.

That's okay.

And so that kind of started me on that.

And that, for me, like I said, I had all kinds of problems with attention deficit disorder and not being able to pay attention.