Flashback to the mid-1990s, when this pilot fish working for a small manufacturing company is asked if he knows anything about computers.

And as it happens, he does. “I had messed around with some home-built PCs, so I said yes,” fish reports. “I was assigned to work with the gentleman who was in charge of the fledgling computer system.

“He had more experience than I did, but mostly from learning on the job. I did simple installs and troubleshooting and helped him with larger projects as needed.”

One morning fish gets a call from the senior computer guy, asking fish to come straight to his office. When fish arrives he sees stacks of PCs sitting outside the office — all of them new machines that fish has recently installed.

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