Kapil Kaisare

Sixteen years ago, in Abu Dhabi, when I was all of eleven years of age and an amateur QBasic programmer, I sneaked into the storeroom of the small computer shop where I was learning the craft. Sifting through tens of shoeboxes holding floppy disks ( the 5.25″ variety), I found a disk innocuously titled ‘Trinity’. The name stood out – it sounded more interesting than ‘Lotus 1-2-3′ or ‘Wordperfect’ to an eleven year old. Holding it at the corners so as to touch as little dust as possible ( the storeroom was rather musty) I took it to Omar, my then instructor and mentor. He looked it for a couple of seconds before his eyes went wide.

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