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+{{cquote|By the time I was in middle school, perhaps, the Iowa Basic Skills tests were administered such that answers went on to answer sheets that computers could read. I reflected, at the time, on what a great savings in time that must have been for the school and wondered vaguely where all that would go as I got older. Then there were the moonshots and 20 years later crunky PCs became available to us. But never did I imagine the home or office PC as it is today and the hundreds and thousands of hours I would be saving on personal and academic research, international banking from my own PC etc. and I certainly never imagine that an idea like Wikipedia would become the giant in my life that I has become. Google and Wikipedia. WOW! }}
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 {{cquote|As a teenager, I was constantly dragging my parents to the local library in search of good quality books on science, electronics, assembly language, and computer programming...topics I was deeply interested in. The search for good information was tedious and rarely productive.  I rapidly exhausted what the local library contained (which was almost nothing) and then resorted to transfer requests from other libraries which took weeks to arrive.  Often the material I did manage to get was over my head or lacked enough introduction to really be useful.  At the time (~1982-85), teachers and school were little or no help in these subjects.