Every time I swap or upgrade one of my computers, I give the swap-out to a family member. My mom has been the recipient twice. She currently has a Dell desktop that is more than powerful enough for her needs. She likes to play Solitaire and the other games that came with the installation; she also listens to CDs and looks at photos on occasion. The oddest and coolest thing is that she has no desire to use the Internet. Mom is well-educated, well-read, and quite alert, so I know she is well aware of the internetworking juggernaut, and I bet that some of her friends use the 'Net regularly. But Mom gets along quite nicely without it, thank you very much.
My dad (RIP) and I were the only two in the family who were really bitten by the PC bug. When Dad passed in 1985, my brother Owen and I cleared his apartment of his belongings. He had a Radio Shack TRS-80, one of the first computers made available to the mass market. I was fascinated by it but couldn't figure out what to do with it. I wrote a program that picked Lotto numbers at random and quickly lost interest. I have no idea what I did with it; I probably moved away from it at some point. It wouldn't command that much on the open market today, as these were quite popular -- but it would look really sweet hooked up to my Dell XPS410.
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