Tinkering

The boy liked tinkering with stuff.

He liked to mend things when he could. He’d had success with an alarm clock and a couple of portable radios. You can imagine his delight when he came across the item in the local jumble sale. The man who sold it to him let him have it for next to nothing because it had never worked. He said he wasn’t sure where he got it from, but over the years he’d try to get it going by putting new batteries in. That hadn’t worked. He thought it might be good for using some of its parts. He was obviously pleased to get rid of it.

The boy saw it as a challenge and began working on it the moment he got it home. It looked much like a transistor radio, but not quite what you’d expect. He had all the tools for the job in his room and started by removing the back cover and replacing the battery with a new one. It had an unusually large screen on the front, but it didn’t light up when he wiggled the on-off switch. He began to delve deeper.

It didn’t take long to find a loose wire that had come adrift from a small terminal block. He reconnected it and found to his great delight that throwing the switch made the screen light up. It came up with a digital display of two sets of strange numbers, symbols and letters. He had no idea what he was looking at, but he felt his excitement growing with what he had found.

Beneath the screen there were a couple of knurled dials that changed the sequence being shown. After twiddling these around for a while, he stared at the characters 31.4482° N, 109.9284° W, left showing on the screen. They made no sense to him.

Annoyed about that, he turned his intention to the button on the side, that he’d noticed earlier. There didn’t seem to be anything to indicate what its function was. After staring at it for a while, he decided to press it…

Of course, had he known that he was meddling with a Global Location Transporter, he would know that he now stood in the poorly-lit basement of a museum in Bisbee, Arizona.

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