I was scared of computers growing up. Not in the sense that I didn't like them, I do. But in the sense that I always ran into people smarter than me that made me feel stupid.
The irony is, now that towers are going the way of the dinosaurs, at least with hardware, I am no longer afraid. Much like a car mechanic can tell you what a carburetor is or alternator are. I now know what a heat sink is on a tower and what an expansion slot is and what a motherboard is.
But I never did grasp literal computer language. I can tell you how to erase an entire hard drive and reformat it it in DOS, "Format C:" from the C: promt. But that does not work now. Too many security levels now.
Outside that I did not understand the "If then, go to" language. And C++ was even more confusing to me than DOS.
The irony is, now that towers are going the way of the dinosaurs, at least with hardware, I am no longer afraid. Much like a car mechanic can tell you what a carburetor is or alternator are. I now know what a heat sink is on a tower and what an expansion slot is and what a motherboard is.
But I never did grasp literal computer language. I can tell you how to erase an entire hard drive and reformat it it in DOS, "Format C:" from the C: promt. But that does not work now. Too many security levels now.
Outside that I did not understand the "If then, go to" language. And C++ was even more confusing to me than DOS.
