Marty ended up in the Bay Area after he flunked out of an MIT computer science degree (he was too busy programming computers to do his classwork), and earning his CPA at a community college.
Silicon Valley in the early eighties was *wild*: Reaganomics stalked the land, the AIDS crisis was in full swing, the Dead Kennedys played every weekend, and *man* were the PCs ever *weird*.
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