Day 25: I Will Forever Be Grateful To My Dad For Introducing Me To the World of Computers

I don’t know where you were in your late 20’s, but if I told you (at that age) that the only opportunity to better your life was to leave the country you were born in and travel to another country where you didn’t speak the language, I’m wondering how many of you would honestly (in this day and age) make that trip.

You see, it’s exactly what my father did. He traveled from El Salvador in the late 70’s in search of a better life for his family. Not to put too fine a point on it, but had he not taken that leap, I wouldn’t be here writing this to you.

Not only that, at some point during the 2nd or 3rd work shift of his day, he somehow managed to find an advertisement in the back of a magazine, promoting a program in computer repair.

I can’t for the life of me put myself in his shoes, but something clicked. He recognized, as many did then, that computers were the future. And so he found a way to get the money to attend, and my family’s life was changed forever.

It was he that brought home the first electric typewriter I had ever seen. Granted, the thing weighed a ton, but it was cool as shit. That piqued my curiosity and eventually led to my first Texas Instruments PC with a cassette recorder as the ‘hard drive’. It’s been a love for tech ever since.