Beginnings
Dave was born David Bruce Haynie on May 23, 1961, in Summit, New Jersey, United States. He moved to Colts Neck, New Jersey, in 1966, where he lived out his childhood with his three younger sisters. A few early Heathkit projects, and, at the age of 12, a run-in with his dad's borrowed HP desktop calculator changed his life forever. From 12 years on, he taught himself programming, initially on timeshare systems from his dad's account at Bell Laboratories. Later on, he wrote programs on his best friend Scott Scherer's Commodore PET 2001, the first home computer he had seen up close.
He left for college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. Four years later, he graduated with a double BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.
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