I don’t remember anyone else at USC even having a PC then.

I always loved writing software.

It was hard not to be impacted by Apple’s Super Bowl commercial.

It came out of nowhere and ended up everywhere.

They had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.

And the Lisa was very expensive.

Apple had a solution, however.

On one Macintosh, you wrote your software and compiled it, and on the other Macintosh you debugged.

It was far from elegant for a developer, but I was intrigued.

First, the computers came, and they were amazing.

It just all made so much sense to me.

I could hardly wait to write my own software!

I waited and waited and waited.

After months of waiting, the software still had not come.

I thought to myself, what kind of company was this that advertised products they didn’t have?

I called Guy Kawasaki, the head of developer relations for Apple.

Guy was a great salesman, he was always upbeat.

He would tell me the same thing every time I called him, “It is coming soon.”

This must be MDS, I thought to myself, and I put the disks into my Macintoshes.

It was a software jigsaw puzzle, and I was sure I could solve it.

After numerous tries, I got something to work, although it was extremely rudimentary.

I told him I was planning on writing software to put myself through college.

Finally, it just hit me that it was a great idea.

I was already wondering what it would be like to have a paycheck.

Scott worked for Guy, running developer support.

I was so excited.

The player had the ability to do one very important thing–blow up IBM’s headquarters.

You are supposed to be building sample code for the Mac."

Interesting, I thought to myself.

But I really loved working at Apple.

I worked in an amazing building with inspiring people.

It was all very cool.

The refrigerators were filled with Odwalla juices, and you could drink as many as you wanted!

And, there were shiatsu massage therapists roaming the halls giving all the developers back rubs.

I had a security badge with my photo on it.

I even got my first real pay check.

I was part of the solution to help other developers build on this incredible new platform.