I don’t know about most of my audience, but I plead ”Guilty as Charged” for failure to start this online endeavor  not weeks or months ago, but YEARS ago.  I consider myself an expert at fixing and supporting the hardware end of small computers. (Small meaning not mainframes). I have a excellent counterpart who knows software even better. And as I stated in my previous post, I have had this gnawing in the pit of my stomach telling me that there is a huge need for information products and offering to deliver them online. I dabbled in computer services since 1985, having purchased my first 8088 PC in 1982 or 83. But I was the proud owner of a new IBM 286 system in 1985 ($6200.00) and an Epson dot matrix printer (another $1000.00) and I was in business printing food labels for a vendor friend of mine. But from that little starting point to the existence of the internet lay many years. When we had to solve problems with attaching products, we would literally have to beg the support staff at the other end of  a ‘long distance call” (does anyone remember them?) to copy a scrap of code to a 5 1/4 inch diskette and mail them to us. At that time a high density diskette was $9.00 so it wasn’t about to be quick or free. The world of computing has changed so fast and come so far that I suffered from “information overload” from all the slick offers being made and buying the next new program that was supposed to make it “easy” to build an online presence. Maybe it’s “easy” or at least “easier” the second or third or tenth time, but trust me, the first time can be terrifying.

Ray Ott