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Michael T. Soule, Founder and Engineer Michael T. Soule, Founder and Engineer
In 1984, I was 12 years old and went with my dad to pick up our first computer, an IBM clone. I do not recall what hardware it had, but I do remember the amber screen, the big red on/off switch on the rear right side and running the MS-DOS operating system. From then on, I had always been interested in the computer and start writing my first programs, initially in BASIC. It was always a thrill to make the machine do what I wanted it to do.
At the same time, I was constructing electronic circuits and building robots in my bedroom. Taking gadgets apart to see how they worked and seeing what I could turn them in to. Even though a lot of time they would never work again, my mom still encouraged me to follow my dream.From then on, I took several electronics courses and began learning the C programming language. I have written thousands of programs to do various things, some still in use today.