Welcome, everyone, to episode number 60 of Under-Served.

Today, we are featuring Conrad Morgan, Director of Engineering, Retail Systems at Rue

Guilt Group. Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Hey, Conrad, thank you so much for joining us today.

Hey, Andrew, thanks a lot for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

So, tell me if you could, what got you interested in computers when you were a youth?

When I was a youth, fond memories of this time, you know, I think back to my childhood,

and I don't think a lot of thoughts and have a lot of memories of luxury items, right?

And back when I was a kid, having a personal computer in your home was definitely considered a luxury.

So, when I first got my hands on a computer and could actually start tinkering with it,

I think I was around 11 or 12 years old. I saw Windows 95 for the first time and got to play

things like the old snake game. I don't know if you remember that one or not, but that was a

classic growing up, especially if you had one of those old-school Nokia phones, amazing game.

I could spend hours doing that, but I was able to actually see that kind of come to life

for the first time. And as I was playing those games, I was like, I just wonder, how does this

kind of stuff work? How do computers work? How does software work? And it just kind of started

giving me that itch that I felt like I needed to scratch. And from there, I just kind of started

looking at what different computers could do. And, you know, I didn't have a lot of resources

at my disposal to go do it. So, it was kind of this dwelling here. We got our first PCS around

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