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[preface]
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[[story]]
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=== The Story Behind BeagleConnect™
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There are many stories behind BeagleConnect™, mine is just one of them. It begins
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with my mom teaching me about computers. She told me I could anything I wanted
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with ours, as long as I didn't open the case. This was the late-70s/early-80s, so
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all she needed to do was put her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk[floppy disk]
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away and there wasn't risk of me damaging the family photo album or her ability to
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do her work the next day. I listened and learned from her the basics of programming, but
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it wasn't long before I wanted to take the computer apart.
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Initially exploring http://www.forrestmims.org/[Getting Started in Electronics] satisfied my
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itch for quite a while. Eventually, I got a Commodore 64 and began connecting voice
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synthesizer ICs to it. My interest in computers and electronics flourished into
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an electrical engineering degree and a long career in the semiconductor industry.
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Over this time, I've become more and more alarmed with the progress of technology. Now,
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to be clear, I love technology. I love innovation and invention. It is just that some
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things have evolved in a sort of tunnel-vision, without bringing everyone along.
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But, what about keyboard users? As graphical user interfaces and mice took over computers, they rapidly became almost
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unusable by my mom. She typed well, but the dexterity to move a mouse aluded her.
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To satisfy the need to interact with locations on the screen, she adopted using a
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joystick and her productivity came to a crawl. How is it that such assumptions could
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be made impacting *all* computer users without any thoughtful provisions for what
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already worked? |