Friday, April 30, 2010

Another laptop in the family

I am tech savvy, or at least I am getting that way. I am self taught when it comes to to computers but I have also been around them for most of my adult life which means I have 30 years experience. I built my first desk top from pirated chip sets back in the late 1970's and learned "basic" computer language. Next came DOS then on to HTML. My brother-in-law use to translate programing from "C" to Pascal for fun. I now can repair laptops at the hardware level and install new OS or fix programs at the registry level.

That being said we have a total of 8 computers in the family. One desk top, 5 laptops and 2 PDA's. One of the laptops was given to me to repair by a friend and I fixed it in less than 20 minutes. The guy who gave it to me now tells me to keep it, since he just bought a new laptop. I gave it to my daughter who now has 2 laptops. I don't do it for money but it is a hobby.

At least if one of them breaks down, we have plenty of back-up computers in the house.

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