{"id":120,"date":"2002-12-24T12:37:32","date_gmt":"2002-12-24T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/raising-the-bar"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:02:13","slug":"raising-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/21st-century\/raising-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 2002-12-24 12:37 -->Remember the good ol&#8217; days of the twentieth century when Dad stayed up late on Christmas Eve trying to assemble a bicycle or a dollhouse. Or when fathers and sons hung out in the workshop building a soapbox derby car?<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nWell, the bar&#8217;s been raised for 21st century dads. AJM decided to give the Boy S. what he really, really, really wanted for Christmas (since he already seems to have everything else), a new computer designed especially for playing video games. And to get exactly what they wanted, of course, they had to build it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the pieces, the project seemed daunting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/computer1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: motherboard\"><\/p>\n<p>And you thought AJM only did software.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/computer2.jpg\" alt=\"photo: motherboard2\"><\/p>\n<p>Testing the completed hardware.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/computer3.jpg\" alt=\"photo: a new computer\"><\/p>\n<p>The most difficult part of the project was the OS installation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/computer4.jpg\" alt=\"photo: damn Windows XP\"><\/p>\n<h4>This Just In&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p>In answer to Stephen Curran&#8217;s comment below, the technical details are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/itymbi\/archives\/000900.html#000900\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- 2016-10-25 09:58. Update link to photo. --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did your Dad build you for Christmas?<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/21st-century\/raising-the-bar\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}