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One day back in the early 1980s, when I was a young teenager, I was hanging out at a friend’s apartment. We both had Atari computers, I had the 400 and he had the fancier Atari 800, and spent a lot of time copying games and trying to figure out how to play them. You see, if you pirated a [...]
I must have looked deranged when I walked into the café. Like a guy scanning the club at last call. No one struck me as particularly interesting, so I adjusted my standards and decided that everyone caught my attention. Wiping sweat from the back of my neck, I approached a pair of men. Probably colleagues. “Sorry to interrupt,” I said. [...]
