I learned BASIC when I was 7 in the early 1980's. I went to a very advanced high school that had Internet access in 1991 and some Unix systems. I loved it and was fascinated by all the hardware.

I started college in EE, I absolutely loved my digital logic class. I talked to one of the lab TA's in Circuits 2 and said this wasn't as interesting as digital logic. He told me to switch to computer engineering. I looked at the courses and there were only 5 classes different. I switched that week.

I've been designing computer chips the last 30 years.

> Maybe I Am Just a Software Guy

That's the TL ; DR version of the article.

The TL ; DR version of my post is "I like programming but I find hardware far more interesting."