I was working on one of the many computers that have failed for us when Charles announced “I just don’t get how computers work”. Ah, maybe I’ll keep him.
I pulled apart the bits for one of the dead computers and showed Charles the CPU and memory, with all of the little electrical contacts. I thought he’d find the heat sink interesting but not so much. After showing him all that, I took him over to see the picture Mom has on the wall in the hallway of the CPU she used to work with, the Intel iWarp (if you look close, you can find Mom’s picture on a link from there). Charles was very impressed.