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    I've been setting up and repairing computers for about 5 years.  What started as a hobby has turned into a business serving  Middletown, NY and the surrounding area.  I've also begun selling computers.  That was to answer customers' questions about what to buy, not to get rich quick.  I thought that it was wrong to send customers back to venders who only offer help through a contracted repair service.

I believe that selling a product, especially computers,  is best done by someone who knows how the product works, and how to setup, and repair the product.

What got me into this?

   It started many years ago. My grandfather was a radio repairman, in addition to his full time job. My parents rented an apartment in the house that my grandparents owned and lived in from the time of my birth until I was thirteen .  My grandfather worked on radios in the garage or the cellar of the house.  I  had a knack of finding him when he was working on radios. I didn't help him, though I didn't realize that until years later.  I was too busy asking questions. I was very inquisitive.  I could ask what every component in a radio was in only a few minutes. He patiently answered my questions.  I must have learned something.  By the time I was ten years old I was building electronic kits from diagrams in books.  At the age of thirteen I rewired a  1939  RCA console radio because the insulation on the wires was getting brittle.  That radio still works.  As a teenager I didn't have to buy things to make loud music, I made them.  I went to college and got an associates degree in electronics.  Some of the studies were hard but much of it I already knew.

    In college I was most often in the computer room during free time.  Learning the programing language called "Basic" was fun.  I was enjoying spending time with computers more than I enjoyed the company of most people. I knew then that I had to get away from computers after graduation.  So I went into a completely different field of employment. What got me back was the gift of a computer for my children.  They learned math, grammar, drawing, etc.  Of course the programs were getting more demanding and the speed of the computer soon fell behind.  It must have been all of three weeks before I opened that computer.  Just to look inside.  Then since it was a 386 without an FPU, that's a floating point unit - a chip to help the CPU, that's a central processing unit - the main processor, that was an easy upgrade. Today the FPU is built into the CPU.  It was upgraded over the years and now has none of the original parts, all new. Click on the Home button below if you're ready to escape this page.

What follows was updated May, 17, 2004

         Most of my experience has been with IBM clones using Intel, AMD, or Cyrix CPU's, running one of Microsoft's operating systems, or Linux operating systems and various other software.  No, I'm not "anti" any of them.  They are all very good for their intended purposes.  I am becoming very pro Linux for those who can benefit by using it.  Linux is becoming more user and administrator friendly with every succeeding release of a new distribution.  I am the most pro Mandrake Linux. And if you are going to try Linux, I recommend that you try Mandrake Linux 9 or above with the KDE window manager and desktop which is included with that distribution of Mandrake Linux.  This recommendation is only valid until the above mentioned software companies come out with upgrades.  Then most likely my recommendation will be the upgrade versions.  Note: I am not affiliated with any of the products mentioned on this page. All products mentioned are covered by the copyrights of their manufacturers. The copyright of Linux is very interesting. Click here to read the copyright that covers the freely distributed operating system named Linux.  You can legally download and use for free the Linux operating system. But you better learn how to install and use it first. You can do that by reading and studying the Linux How To's.

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