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About me

About Me This might be the shortest 'about me' ever, lets see 😀 I started using computers back in the 1980's and eventually did a distance learning course on Computer repair and upgrade in 1999. Not long after that I secured a job as a computer technician in a local school. This involved various tasks, but mainly looking after the suites of Acorn thin client computers and the Acorn Risc PC's. The network was very small at the time, but there were plans to expand it. The network expanded and I was now looking after a much larger network. We still had thin client computers, but these were running Windows Server NT4. This soon got changed to Windows Server 2000.Fast forward 20 years and I am still at the same school, but now am the Network Manager. Servers have come and gone and so have technicians. Now I am looking after the whole campus on my own, because the "budget" will not stretch to a technician. I have been repairing and upgrading computers locally for m