Lessons Learned in Life: Parts is Parts
Sep. 4th, 2006 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grizzlyzoneWhen I got my first computer many, many years ago, it came with something like 256K (yes, that is Kilobytes) of RAM. My first add-on purchase was a Memory Plus Expansion Card with 0K RAM. Now, I could add some RAM, however, the memory chips themselves would have to wait.
A friend then gave me a handful of RAM chips salvaged out of an Apple computer. I was a bit amazed that something from an Apple computer was going to work in my PC. They did.
Which made me realize my first life lesson: Parts is parts. Objects can have multiple uses, sometimes radically different for what they were originally intended. You can't look at objects and just see one definition for them, or one use for them. Things can be used for a variety of uses and that's limited only by your imagination.
A friend then gave me a handful of RAM chips salvaged out of an Apple computer. I was a bit amazed that something from an Apple computer was going to work in my PC. They did.
Which made me realize my first life lesson: Parts is parts. Objects can have multiple uses, sometimes radically different for what they were originally intended. You can't look at objects and just see one definition for them, or one use for them. Things can be used for a variety of uses and that's limited only by your imagination.