The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 12/13/2013 4:15 PM, philo wrote:
On 12/13/2013 04:09 PM, Irreverent Maximus wrote:

"philo " wrote in message
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Well, most of the people I repair computers for have very little
money so if I charge at all, it's typically just $25.

Only once did I get a job for a very wealthy business man but
since it went over 5 hours, I gave them a 20% discount.

Nothing wrong with that. I suspect that you have a love of what
you are doing, too. I had a love of what I did, but my body did
not. Well, with the exception of the last year and a half with one
employer. That was all TS&R. Once my employer wanted me to wear
multiple hats again (be a one man work crew), I went elsewhere. My
body no longer liked digging trench, laying out/lifting heavy
things, pretty much entire projects, all by myself.

It felt good to wake up in the morning and not feel like I had
been rolled down a hill in a barrel full of rocks. I do, however,
have an urge to further my PLC skills and work in a pure motor
control environment. Nothing like toting a laptop instead of all
the other crap. That, and my wallet might stop bitching at me.
:-)


I was in the industrial battery business for 38 years...the large
ones found in fork lift trucks. Two years ago my knees went and had
to get them replaced. I am glad to be retired now.

Although even after the knees were replaced they are not as good as
new...my back sure feels a lot better now.

I have been sort of forced to learn how to repair laptops now...as
towers and desktops are not as prevalent as they once were.

I look at laptops more as watch repair though.

I fix computers all the time and replace screens in laptops. I picked up
three broken laptops from a pawn shop for $100 and was able to get two
of them working right away because they had software problems and dead
batteries. Another thing I do is get batteries and chargers for folks
who have dead laptops. Of the three laptops I bought one is a 17"
Toshiba with a full sized keyboard having the numeral keys on the right
side. I got it so I could watch movies and surf the web while I was in
my hospital bed. The Toshiba has Win Vista and the smaller HP has Win 7
the third laptop has some sort of BIOS problem which prevents it from
accessing the internal hard drive, It runs fine off a live Linux CD.
I've got quite a collection of different laptops and desktops now and
have a lot of fun with computers. ^_^

TDD
Hi,
Any of them has HDMI port?