MINNEAPOIS – Britton Wayne Smith, 48, of Minneapolis, a computer whiz who graduated from Cotter High School in Winona in 1993, died at home. When he was 5 his parents gave him and his brother a Texas Instruments computer for Christmas. While the parents were fretting stymied over the instructions, the boys had it already hooked up. At Cotter he wired the school for its first computers. A month after graduation, he was teaching the Cotter teachers how to use their new devices. He first worked at Vangard Technology in Winona, then moved to Engineering Animation in Ames, Iowa, then to Minneapolis where he worked at Digital River, Reeher and finally Blackbaud. At Blackbaud he was the A Team lead software engineer. He enjoyed music and played trumpet in the high school band and later moved on to a guitar .
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