My first "real" job was working at Arthur Anderson, where due to my geeky love of computers I was able to quickly move from the mail room to Data Processing.

1-2-3 was like crack for accountants (it was first released right around that time). One of my tasks was making "backup copies" for users. Probably had 1 legit copy for every 20 staffers so this was quite a sum of money they "saved".

After getting sued for millions for copyright infringement they realized it was cheaper to buy a real copy for every user.