All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

And today we have Diane Huff on the line with us.

I really shouldn't be calling you a nerd.

I should just be calling you

popular because that's what you are. I'm still a nerd. I take nerd and geek with equal clarity

for myself. So I was trying to push the limits a little bit the other day by sending, I sent out

this email blast and post on LinkedIn that got a little bit of response as to, you know, why I don't work with women.

And quite frankly, there just aren't any women for me to work with.

And when I came from retail before I ever got into technology, there was like almost two decades ago, I was actually the only guy.

So I don't know what that means or

how to say anything, but that's what we're talking about today. Right. How, so you've been in

technology for quite a while. Why don't we just start with, you know, how you got started? Like,

you know, what was your first computer growing up or kind of what was the story of like you know how did you end up in this space well i i grew up in a time where no one had a computer growing up so um the first

computer i got was in i think it was 1985 a friend gave me a fairly modified commodore 64

a monified what do you get modified?

All my friends were nerds.

And it was actually one of those things that I saw how he modified it,

and it got me very interested in technology.

My first computer that I ever owned on my own was a used IBM 5150

with the dual floppy drives. And I used that almost exclusively. I had word perfect on a floppy,

used it almost exclusively for word processing. And then I also had Lotus 1, 2, 3 on a floppy drive.

So I didn't get anything high powered until the 90s when I built it myself.

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