diff --git a/life/emmas-interests/technology.php b/life/emmas-interests/technology.php index 83c858d..7959786 100644 --- a/life/emmas-interests/technology.php +++ b/life/emmas-interests/technology.php @@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ technically emma - - + + - - + +

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early life and the spark

technology, electronics in particular, was probably one of my first loves. as a child i was quite fond of taking apart anything i could, not yet knowing it would be smart to put it back together. as i entered gradeschool, a teacher would become quite important in my life. due to being legally blind, he would visit the school once per week, and make sure i was doing okay in school. he would do small assesments and we'd play games that would test common skills a child would have at that age. the thing i was obsessed with every time though, was the laptop he would bring. i would learn that it was an IBM ThinkPad T23. to say i was fascinated by this black square is an understatment. i was hooked by the idea of the computer, it was the device for someone that possesed curiousity like i did. this teacher caught on pretty quickly, and eventually would allow me some time each meeting to just look around on the computer, or make images in paint. trusting a little kid with your work pc is pretty impressive, but i think it really speaks to who this man was and what he meant to me as a whole @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@

- an early example of an apple powerbook. the model is a 165c. it features a color screen, and had an operating system that supported color. the powerbook sits atop a desk with a floppy disk icon on the screen. a question mark appears and disappears within this floppy disk, suggesting no operating system can be found to boot from + an early example of an apple powerbook. the model is a 165c. it features a color screen, and had an operating system that supported color. the powerbook sits atop a desk with a floppy disk icon on the screen. a question mark appears and disappears within this floppy disk, suggesting no operating system can be found to boot from
a powerbook 165c that i hung onto after purchasing on a whim off of eBay. i'm not particularly interest in retro computing, but the relatively untouched nature of this laptop combined with the price made me curious enough to purchase it. it will need a copy of mac os 7.1 installed. but all components function as they should @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@

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