article_snippet: Let me start with a little history: I got my first taste of computers in the mid-1970s in junior high school.
article_snippet: we were a curious group and we were eager to learn more and more about the different computers made and how a curious group worked.
article_snippet: we ended up getting into about a dozen computer systems -- from the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to a major international bank system in Los Angeles to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, one of only two U.S. laboratories dedicated to nuclear weapons research.
article_snippet: Today, more than 30 years later, I'm still fascinated by computers: I'm employed as a network engineer and, at home, I tinker around on about half a dozen computers.
article_snippet: The things that we did set the stage for more than just we personal career paths: we helped create several federal laws that are still on the books for computer crime and password safety.
article_snippet: It makes me proud as a network engineer working partially in security knowing that, in a way, what we did as a group made for safer computing today.
highlights_snippet: As a teen, Timothy Winslow fell in love with exploring computer systems around the nation .
  