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Re:I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptograp... by cbozeman on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:49AM (#30126693)
It's hard not to be critical of this headmaster, but I do have to question both the intelligence and the wisdom of someone who, in 1989, could not clearly see computers had no chance of becoming a "passing fad".

Picking up a copy of The Wall Street Journal at any point in the previous ten years could have clearly indicated that... and any school at which there's a "headmaster"... I would expect the WSJ is not a foreign entity to them.

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Re:I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptograp... by kingcharles on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:27PM (#30156320)
The fact the parents allowed it to go through, in hindsight, is absurd. The computing teacher did try to teach us outside of school hours some times, but I failed the Computing GCSE (F grade), which is hilarious as at the exact same time I was being offered a job at Argonaut Games after Jez San tried out my 3D engine.
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