Me and my foster sister, eventually traded rooms. The intent was to help me to begin to learn to be more independent. It helped, but there was more work yet to be done.
I switched rooms and then got an upgrade to my computer. This one was far better. It had a 10 GB hard drive, which was pretty big back then. It also had a zip disk drive in it. That was my first use for zip disks at home. I could store 100 MB at a time.
I continued to create programs and learn programming. I decided that I would have to restart things by creating an OS. That's because no existing OS was good enough for me for then. So to aid in that, I got SuSe Linux 9.0 for Christmas, and learned Linux as well.
My attempt at using computers in these ways was to use them to overcome my disability and become more independent. Plus, my goal was to create a job for myself later down the road.
I failed at using it to become more independent at that time. It was a good idea, but by needing to create my own OS, I was simply creating more work for myself. I didn't have time for a full time job or any housework or anything. It took all my time just to maintain the computer. I enjoyed it, but my plan failed. If I would have been smart, I would have thought of another way to make things work right then and there, but I didn't. It's not that using computers was a bad idea, but I was not yet using them the right way.
--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---
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