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Thoughts while charging my old iPad

Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence
4 min readAug 22, 2021

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My 2010 iPad-photo by author

I still have my original Model 1 iPad. No, I’m not using it, but I do keep it charged.

Yeah, I don’t know why I do that. Somehow I got started and never stopped. It’s completely weird but every time I think about letting it die, I think “I wonder how long it can go?”

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Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence

Retired Unix Consultant. I write tech and humor mostly but sometimes other things. See my Lists if your interests are specific.