So the other day I walked into the kitchen holding a knackered motherboard from a dead PC that I was about to put in the bin. Josh asks me if he can have a look at it and I tell him I can do one better than that - he can have it. He’s absolutely stoked by this and has me explain to him all the different bits and pieces on the board. I show him the CPU, the northbridge and southbridge chips, the RAM slots, the IDE sockets. I explain that PCBs are a bit like cities with a road network, but instead of people moving around, little bits of information do. He seems rather taken with this explaination.

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Update: Link working again. Perfect example of why I took my blog off-site.