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I’m an anthropologist by training, a programmer by avocation, and a manager by necessity. My husband and I have owned and operated a small plumbing repair shop since 1979. I started programming in 1985, when I bought my first PC for the business. The first thing I discovered was that computers weren’t quite as obscure as I’d thought they were. The second thing was that nobody in town wanted to create a ‘simple’ database for the business. So… I did it myself.
I fell into Compuserve in 1989 and soon discovered a ‘virtual pub’ where professional programmers gathered to talk shop after work. I joined the study group in CLMFOR shortly after it started, and over the years I gained a quality education in software engineering. (As far as we know, ours was the first on-line study group, although the idea has obviously spread widely since then.) I still keep up with many of the people from that group, although we’ve moved on from CompuServe to other homes on the web.