Foreword
A long time ago, I was a little kid growing up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania. My hometown is small enough that my parents’ farm was just half a mile down the road from my maternal grandparents’ house, my mother’s childhood home.
One day, when I was seven years old, I was visiting my grandparents. It just so happened that one of my uncles also dropped by on that particular day. He wanted to give my grandparents a present: their first computer, a Mac Plus.
You see, my uncle was heavily involved in all kinds of computing shenanigans. And computers were still a new thing in those days, so not many people had them. My grandparents, caring about their son and his interests, decided it would be a good idea to check out this whole “computer” ...
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