I see I'm a young punk here. I first got involved with computers by going through the APTs (Advanced Playing Techniques) in my dad's Computist magazines to find out the right bytes to hex-edit to give Conan the Barbarian infinite lives and hatchets, in the Apple IIe game by the same name. From the sound of things that's probably after all the rest of you had gotten rich off the microcomputer boom and retired.
-Max