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Scott Hannen

I used to write really simple games for the TRS-80 by hand when I was around 9 or 10 and I'd go to Radio Shack and type them in. I got a Model III when I was 11. Someone at my father's vocational school gave me a printout of a 'Lost on Mars' text adventure. I used that to learn and for the next few years I wrote my own text adventures and simple video games.

After 1988 I didn't program for some years. Later when I was in a sales job I started automating tasks using VBA (I hate to admit that I ever coded in VBA.) That led me back into development.