When I was little my brother and I shared a laptop, it was sort of grey, and it was an IBM one, and it ran Windows 3.1. The only lasting piece of writing I ever did on it was a seven page book about the human body. I think I was eight or nine at the time. I can remember what my bedroom looked like (bunk beds, and a grotty yellow carpet) and that I went to Sainsbury’s with my mum at the same time because I remember talking about it in the car.
One of the problems with working at the same place as your mother is she has a tendency to bring these kind of artifacts into work. At the time I was slightly horrified. Such evidence of my geeky childhood should not be aired in the workplace. Also, having not seen the book for a number of years, I couldn’t remember exactly what was in it. Luckily it is not full of (so many) adorable spelling errors and nonsensical sentences, and there is definitely some excellent use of Corel ClipArt, so I have decided to put it up here in a couple of installments. Click on the images to enlarge.
