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    “You’ve got a real gift for this,” Mr. Prescott bemused one late afternoon when they had been working together in the computer lab after school. Despite the fact Scotty had moved well beyond his mentor’s skill level, he still fed off of the encouragement, praise and guidance the middle-aged man provided. And Prescott’s unwavering belief in Scotty, his willingness to push him harder, to help him achieve higher levels of skill, helped feed Scotty’s confidence, his self-worth – all at a time when that was one of the most important things to develop in a young teenager’s mind and heart.
    “Thank you,” Scotty said in return, a proud smile erupting onto his face.
    “No, my young friend,” Prescott replied. “Thank YOU!”
    And that ongoing relationship, of course, led to Scotty’s real passion. When the Commodore Pet was replaced by the Commodore 128, and, simultaneously, when Scotty’s parents purchased the Commodore VIC-20 for the home, he continued to practice his BASIC programming skills; then moved on to PASCAL.  He watched the television show Bits and Bytes featuring Billy Van and Luba Goy, knowing virtually as much as the show’s host (Van) and his computer-connected mentor (Goy), but still marveling at the wonder of computers.
    Prescott also introduced him to various computer magazines, such as Computer & Video Games and Compute! and Scotty reveled in the monthly columns and articles by programmers sharing their programs, which would be typed out in long form for avid readers of the magazine to key into their own computers to try out on their own.  Scotty, of course, tried them all, and often experimented with adapting their codes into his own. He even submitted a few of his own adapted codes to the magazine after some encouragement from Mr. Prescott.
    Which led to Scotty actually writing a monthly column for Computer Programmers Monthly , one of the many magazines Scotty ended up subscribing to.  Scotty used a pen name for these articles, and Mr. Prescott submitted them on his behalf.
    Scotty wrote these articles under the name Commandor (a word that combined Commander and Commadore) Mr. Prescott handled all of the submission of material, including cashing the checks and ensuring Scotty received his payment. Scotty kept this alter ego to himself – or between his mentor and himself – it was almost like a superhero secret identity.  Scotty quite liked the idea of having an ability, a “super power” so to speak, that nobody else knew about.  Mr. Prescott was like Scott’s own personal superhero buddy, mentor and support system, a combination of Mister Miyagi from the Karate Kid movies and Alfred, Batman’s personal servant.
    Throughout the years, even when he moved off to University and seldom saw Mr. Prescott – who retired the same year Scotty graduated from university – the secret identity was something only the two of them shared.
    That had been the start of Scotty’s pseudonym, or what became his hacker name.  The magazine only lasted about four years before being replaced, but there had been enough of an underground community of hackers, and, as bulletin board systems, the precursors to the internet, came on the scene in mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, Scotty found a whole new group of anonymous colleagues who were part of the hacker scene.
    As the bulletin boards eventually gave way to the Freenets and other online communities that became the Internet and World-Wide Web, Scotty, as Commandor became a well-known hacker.
    Though he maintained a regular career as a talented computer programmer, Scotty kept up his secret hacker identity. Which eventually led to the hacker lifestyle, which led to lucrative jobs, and being able to choose which of the many opportunities that were offered to him, such as the one that drew him to Sudbury.
    After years of working in IT, Scotty had a sideline of business in which he would work on various hacks, both personal and