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>Know any decent computer nerds in the 80s/90s that weren’t at least dabbling in that stuff?

I mean, if your definition of decent requires you to be a fraud and a conman, then no.

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My father, while he certainly pirated a lot of software back in the 90s, wasn't stealing any phone cards, or doing any embezzlement. Presumably, that makes him not decent with computers.




I betcha he was whistling 2600. How is that different?


It's hard to take you seriously if you can't tell the difference between making a copy of a disk, and embezzlement.

(You probably can tell the difference, because I doubt you think that the former should be a felony.)




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