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 ladygreenwitch
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Last Activity: 11-01-2007
About Me
- About ladygreenwitch
- Biography
- My fist introductions to computers was in 1976, in the Bay Area out here in California, when my dad brought home a Kaypro portable. We thought it was amazing. It could play a game called Star Wars with spaceships, ">", and asteroids, "*", and lasers, "---".
Much later in my life, 1987, after moving to Tonawanda NY, I was exposed to a computer even more amazing, it was an Amiga, which had places you could click on to create files, and play games, (in other words, it was Widows before Windows was Windows.) I used it to play a cool game called Cthulu, and keep P&L records for my business. But sadly I learned to hate computers and curse them as the devil's spawn. My new husband spent countless thousands of dollars, (and hours,) paying for hourly access to a game through a bulletin board. (Yes this is PC History 101, lol.)
In 1996, I moved out on my own again, back again in sunny CA, my father gave me a computer with Win 95 on it. I used it to write letters and meet people "on-line."
I got a job working as an Executive Assistant in a department store and had to learn Word and Excel. We were using Windows 3.1, and almost as soon as I had gotten comfortable with it (about a month), we did a major overhaul into Windows 95. (Yep, retail doesn't stay up to date techno wise.) This is where I learned to troubleshoot computer problems, got good at graphic presentations with PowerPoint and Publisher, and started to interact with the IT staff.
After a couple of years, I got promoted to the IT staff, teaching computer classes to the executives of the company, running the helpdesk two to three days a week,and fixing the laptops of the executives and the PCs of their staff. It turns out I was really good at it . I could fix the laptops that stumped my more experienced teammates and could troubleshoot the PCs that the "trained techs" gave up hope on and said to reformat, I even helped people over the phone figure out how to connect thier PCs at home to our network. So I learned to love technology again.
Since then my new husband has filled my life with numerous; PCs, and scanners, and printers, and routers, and , modems, and OSs, and ... (he's a real techno geek,) which I have learned to repair and maintain. I love having the opportunity to help the people who come to PCHF, they bring interesting puzzles into my life and lots of LOLs to my lips. - Location
- Bay Area California
- Home Country
- United Nations
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