stock photo of old computer monitor When I was 10 or 11, I remember sitting next to my dad in our living room and reading computer code to him as he entered it into an Apple computer. We would finish the exercise and he would hit enter (or was it "run"?) and wait expectantly for the green type to appear on the screen. If we were lucky, the whole conversation would occur. Most often, there would be an error either in my dictation of the code, or in the typing of the code. We would then go painstakingly back through the lines, character by character, to find and correct the error. After what seemed like hours (and might have been), we would succeed and the computer would finally run the entire program. It was magical! My dad designed and built an earth-sheltered, passive solar home decades before solar panels were commonplace. He also was on a 9-month waiting list for a Prius, when hybrids were not seen on every street. While my dad is definitely on the cutting edge of technol...
Living life with a thankful heart
Cute! I've loved your A-Z posts!
ReplyDeleteThank you! :-)
DeleteWhat? No photo! ;o)
ReplyDeleteI think I will glue in a mirror when I actually make the book.
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hey! only what, 2 more letters left?
ReplyDeletelol… yeah, never got into the actual list of letters in sequence and such
OK. You had me second-guessing myself. This is the day for Y, right?
DeleteYeah, right back at You!! Your Youthful Yongens with love the Alphabet-book for sure!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I hope so!
DeletePutting a mirror on the page is PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteIt just has to be that way, I think.
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