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My Sweet Grandfather: A Short Story

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My sweet grandmother was always very understanding about my passions. I caused a lot of trouble when I decided to pull apart every electronic device she had. As an excuse, she used to say “A curious child learns fast.” I was a 9-year-old and very curious about how things work. My first victim was my grandmother’s radio. It was a big old radio and one day it just stopped working making my grandmother very sad. To make her happy again I decided to fix it. I grabbed the toolbox and sat down on the floor and opened the radio from behind. Everything looked fine to me. I checked the power cable, and the plug was loose. I thought it was an easy fix. I stripped the wire, and put everything back in place, and then I closed the power plug. It looked …show more content…

My shopping list would also include a Pentium processor, CPU (I would call the brain of the computer), SATA cables, thermal paste, and the essential part and the heart of my computer the motherboard. My new motherboard had USB drives, so I had to buy a flash drive to be able to save my files. At that time, I was living in a paradise. It was a remote, beautiful place far away from everything. I had terrific deserted beaches around me, but there were no stores to be found. I needed to plan a trip to the big city to buy the hardware I needed. It was a dark rainy day, and since I could not surf, I thought it would it would be the ideal day to set up my first computer. I took the hardware out of the boxes and arranged everything on the table and started working on the motherboard. I plugged in all the parts as instructed by the video. When it was time to try connecting my new PC, it did not work. I was sad and disappointed. I tried for days, but I could not figure out what was going wrong. Then I decided to ask for help from a friend who would know more about computers than I did. My mistake was that some of the cables were plugged in the wrong place. I fixed this and my new computer was up and running. Many years have passed, and I 've set up many computers. I have learned from my

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