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TheChildhood Ideas That Stuck
Entrepreneur
|November 2018
As a kid, I helped my father reformat computers for a lab he started at Ontario’s University of Guelph.
I unscrewed cases of old clone computers to upgrade memory slots and graphics cards, or added a 56k modem to the board. He could have done it faster without me; I know that now. But he was allowing me to see how things worked.
This story is from the November 2018 edition of Entrepreneur.
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