In the late 1970s, things were very different for Len. He left school with no qualifications and landed an unskilled job in a factory. But the company moved to continental shift work, which interfered with Len's gigs and rehearsals as a drummer in a local band. So he jacked the job in and was unemployed for a considerable time. At first he hadn't minded, but, as time went on, he got more and more despondent.
I bumped into him in the street one day and he asked me what I knew about computers. I knew even less then than I know today, but surmised that the discipline of drumming might just have some link to computer programming.
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