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TI: So what happens after the, your military service? What do you do next?

BS: I went back to the farm and then my brother and I opened up this produce market, and we did quite well.

TI: And this is in Pomona?

BS: No. We moved back to West Covina where we were before the war. So my brother and I opened up this produce market. We did pretty good, and so we opened up a larger grocery store with another partner, but we were too young. We didn't know how to run a business and before long we were ready to go broke, so we sold the business. So then I went back to the farm for a short while. Then I became a gardener. Gardeners were in big demand, Japanese gardeners, so I became a gardener, but that was hard work. So I started to go to night school to learn computer programming.

TI: So what year would this be in terms of learning computer programming?

BS: Let's see, I got married around 1957. Oh, '63 or four or five, around there.

TI: So this is very, very early in the computer industry then?

BS: Yeah, they just had that, one of the first computer, 1401 something, IBM.

TI: So what programming language are you learning in the...

BS: It's called 1401 Assembly Language.

TI: Okay, well... okay, so this is, so you're in night school, and when you finish night school what happens?

BS: I found a job at the, at first as a computer operator. Then I got me a job as a programmer, and so I went from company to, from company to, from different companies to get ahead, and so finally I retired in 1992.

TI: All, and you stayed pretty much all doing computer programming during all this time?

BS: Yes.

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