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		nuancebydefault on Sept 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983) That is an amazing story! Did you get paid for your IT services as well?

gramie on Sept 10, 2022 [–]

I never thought of getting paid for it. The chance to "play" on a beefy (for the time) Intel 80286 computer) was all the compensation I needed!

If I remember correctly, I wrote a GW-BASIC program to decode WordPerfect macros, allow them to be edited as text, and re-encode them.

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