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→Programmer portraits: What have these six men got in common? A TI, for one thing.
Except, perhaps, for braininess, computer programmers haven't had many common qualities attributed to them by popular culture yet. And interviews with a group of programmers across the country (one in Canada) show them to be as diverse as the programs they write.
=='''GETTING STARTED'''==
The decision to become a program mer came after experience using a computer for most of those interviewed.
"In 1980 I got a TI computer for $1,000. I knew what I wanted to do at that point."
=='''WHY TI?'''==
Economy was one reason.
