Not literature, exactly, but certainly story and besides, I wanted to keep all the "reading" questions and discoveries in one category.
In putting together a pc, the hard part is really the software and getting it to work correctly. Everything else, cables, wires, screws, have a predetermined place to belong and it is then a matter of either reading the how-to or reading the motherboard and everything that attaches to it.
Things get especially tricky when you need to establish an operating system, such as Windows, and if you need to upgrade it as I did from WIN 95 because that’s the only o/s I have in full copy format (don’t laugh, I have to put in Windows Office 3.1 as a starting point to get it up to the latest version), it starts to balk. The newest hardware is unknown by the older operating systems.
So I was stuck for a while trying to get the CD player to work until I tried using a WIN 98 boot disk and that solved the problem. But even though I was able to install WIN 95 that way, I couldn’t install the motherboard drivers nor get the system to boot to Windows on the hard drive.
So I had to read the system. Learn what it was telling me. By trial and error, I found that using the startup disk and employing the CD, I was able to immediately install the WIN 98 upgrade, and voila!
There are still some things that aren’t quite working properly, but the paths of comprehension in learning how to work both within and around the software is challenging. I am reading what my computer has to tell me.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology