Cecil Wayne Ratliff (goes by Wayne) was born on the 10th of December in 1946 in Trenton, Ohio (near Cincinnati). In college, Ratliff was designing a small, two seater, rear-engine, sports car, and he was using a CDC 6400 to help himself in the pursuit. He wrote programs to help figure out engine displacement, suspension, center of gravity, and other related problems. To his surprise, he found he enjoyed programming more than he enjoyed automobile design. Before finishing his degree, Ratliff got ...