November 28, 2022
Computer Gift
Louis came home with an amazing anniversary present for me: A computer!
He’d bought a used computer that could access the internet! I was super stoked! Set it up, plugged it in, started and *pop* there was a sound that anyone who has ever heard it knows – a blown fuse.
I started by taking it all apart to find the fuse. It was not a pop in and out fuse, but an enclosed one soldered to the breadboard in the power supply unit. A few other things on the power supply were burned and tested bad. I considered trying to redo the power supply, but instead decided to use parts from two old computer bases we’d kept in hopes of fixing. I ended up with a power supply and a few other small things picked from the other two bases and voila! It worked!
The table looked a little messy with three computer innards scattered around.
It reminded me of my Daddy building custom computers in the ‘90s, when I was little more than an observer asking a million questions and occasionally handing something to Daddy. When it worked, I was super stoked.
Now I can access the internet from home again!
It is a slow giant (was originally too fast for the power supply I put in, but I fixed that) but that’s still okay! Nothing has to be super fast for me. The fact that it puts text up on the screen at the same speed I type is a major improvement over the last desktop computer we had! The previous base had lagged a little. I would be typing and it was a few words behind in the displaying of said words or sometimes when I was really into it, sentences behind. It used to make Christina and Becky laugh when my computer did that.
Now, I have a working internet computer that loads everything I need! Another thing I’m thankful for!
Thank you for reading!
Type at you later!
~Nancy Tart