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The first computer I was allowed to touch as an Apple IIe. We banged on this in the second grade, writing a sophisticated video game where you could move a dot in a straight line across the screen using x and y plot points. Well, you really had nothing to do with it. The program just ran it.
Then, somewhere along the way, probably when i started temping years later, I was in the world of PCs.
When I moved across the country, I had plenty of computers at work, but nothing at home. I did someone who let me borrow some Macs. All happiness came to a hault when the moving truck crashed and they all ended up having water damage or huge dents in them.
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“Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show ‘em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp…”
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Being short on cash, I was back in the world of PC.
Then my PC, aptly named Hal 900, got sick and caught a virus or something. Somehow the modem card fried at the same time. Then, I went through the painful process of reverting Hal’s memory back to the days he had that new computer smell. Then, it got to the point in the updates, where Windows Service Pack II tried to install itself, and Hal backslid again. Then, on that fateful day, for the third time, when Hal’s memory was turned back and he came back through time and came to the one year mark when he suffered the deadly disease, he again succumbed.
Oh, and lest I forget, after the modem card fried, I got a wireless router and then a USB wireless thingie so that Hal could pick up wirelessly on its own signal to get on the internet. What next, is that the wireless connection stopped working and someone in India cleared my IP address out of my router, and could not get it back, and then blamed me for not clearly explaining the problem. I assure you I did.
So, I got a wireless router/modem combo from my service provider and all was right with the world. Until Hal lost his brain again.
That was it. I couldn’t do any work any more.
So I am back to a Mac.
I was between both worlds, as I had not completely moved everything from Hal, the cantankerous PC yet, while conducting daily operations on the bright and shiny new Mac. Then, suddenly, Hal was ripped from my arms by a great upheaval. It is a long and perilous story for another day. Only the tiny external hard drive storage unit remains of old Hal.
On this site, I rant about life in parallel computer worlds, review technology and anything else a closet geek (you would never guess by looking at me) wants to talk about.
