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Rebecca Spear

My father built our first Frankenstein computer with Apple parts before switching to Microsoft — and I can pinpoint the exact moment a 'walled garden' turned him away

A top down view of a customized computer built in 1982 with a keyboard built into the wooden frame. .

Growing up, my home was always filled with the hum of multiple PCs. It wasn't uncommon for me to walk into our den only to see computer parts scattered on a table as my father, an electrical engineer, rebuilt PCs and updated them to suit our needs.

And for a time, Apple was part of that story, but then the rise of the "walled garden" turned us away from Apple computers forever, gradually moving to Microsoft.

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