Don't give him time for research, procrastination or paralysis through analysis
You have the knowledge of what you want or the ability to do the research. You're doing it right now. Get to the point of checklist of items to buy and a couple of choices if you're that type of guy. Show three. The expensive one that someone would be stupid to buy, the cheap one made out of s*** no one should want to buy as well, and the one you actually want him to buy in the middle.
I remember when mode: I gave the a boy (12 or 13 at the time, seemed to have some technology knowledge) a stack of scsi discs and a stack of scsi boards and a stack of sata discs and a stack of sata boards and a few usable intel computer frames and I said have fun.
This was stuff I had accumulated through the years as either upgrades from work that would have been discarded or by buying stuff at the computer fairs.
I should have paid closer attention. Scsi termination was not something he was familiar with, nor did he feel the need to research at the time. He just plugged s*** together until something worked. In the process he burned out 3/4 of the equipment. A learning experience.
I remember when mode: I gave the a boy (12 or 13 at the time, seemed to have some technology knowledge) a stack of scsi discs and a stack of scsi boards and a stack of sata discs and a stack of sata boards and a few usable intel computer frames and I said have fun.
This was stuff I had accumulated through the years as either upgrades from work that would have been discarded or by buying stuff at the computer fairs.
I should have paid closer attention. Scsi termination was not something he was familiar with, nor did he feel the need to research at the time. He just plugged s*** together until something worked. In the process he burned out 3/4 of the equipment. A learning experience.