I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.
I got an early education from television.
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.
As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.
I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.