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Our First Computer
October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
My dad decided to buy our first family computer sometime during the 1970’s. I can remember how excited my brother and I were when my dad started unpacking the computer and setting it up in our guest bedroom. We felt so proud to own a computer.
My dad fiddled with the computer for a while and finally had it set up. My mom, brother and I gathered around as my dad turned it on and went through the steps to get it started. With the computer humming and the screen blank my dad hit a key and the computer immediately typed back “invalid command”. I can still remember the noise my dad made as he said “Huummmpphhh” to the computer. My dad tried a few more times and each time the computer responded with “invalid command.”
To our shock, my dad suddenly turned the computer off and started packing it back into the box. “This is a stupid computer, I’m taking it back,” my dad said.
No amount of begging and pleading from my brother and I could talk my dad into keeping the computer, and off he went back to the store to return it and there we sat in a computerless home. My brother and I both became computer literate when we got to college. And my dad? Well, he and my mom got a computer almost 30 years after that first computer experience. My mom learned to send and receive emails and my dad learned to play solitaire on the computer. That was the extent of his computer knowledge, although he seemed quite pleased that he could beat the computer at solitaire. Huummmmphh!
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