Bargain Hunter's Notice

If you are looking for the cheapest place in town to get your computer fixed, by all means, keep looking. Please keep looking. I do this work because I enjoy doing it and because even I don't know when to stop sometimes. I like it when a computer is done, finished, and all is well with the computer. That means whatever was broken is fixed, customer files have been preserved whenever possible, all updates have been done, drivers are installed and up to date, annoyances have been eliminated, cool tweaks have been done to make the computer easier to use and more fun to operate. This is for people that do not have the time, desire, or ability to do all of this maintenance to their own computers and "just want it all done and up to date". This takes a lot of time, typical time on a computer can be ten hours. Not "back breaking hard labor" ten hours, but ten hours just the same, insert disc, formatting drive, please wait, installing software, please wait, scanning drive C, please wait, etc. That is why a typical computer repair costs a hundred dollars. Because I do it all for you and when you get your computer back, it works like the day you bought it or better, without so much adware rampant on the machine.

If you are looking for "cheap", try craigslist, they post almost 50 ads a day and want to fix your computer, wash the car, take the dog for a walk, and grab the kitchen garbage on the way out, all for only $29.95! I do not see how anyone can give you a quality repair for that kind of money. Change the hard drive and send the customer home to install his own operating system? I don't know how they do it but here at Pauls PC Works, the job is done right the first time and everyone is pleased with the quality of work that is done here, and often pleasantly surprised in what they get for the money. Bottom line is that this is not bargain basement repair, this is full service, completely fine tuned, and totally "ready to go" computer service. If that is what you want, you've come to the right place. Welcome to Paul's PC Works and thank you for coming.

My Story

Paul's PC Works is a small outfit that I maintain and run myself, for myself, by myself. I love computers and always have, for a very long time. The first computer that I ever had was a Radio Shack BASIC computer that you connected to your TV set onto those two screws on the back for that old fashioned thing, the antenna. You would put the television on channel 3 and start up the Radio Shack computer and could do some very simple things with it, all of the programming for it was BASIC. You could plug a cassette tape recorder into it to save your programs on cassette tape and load them up next time you used it. It was fun to play with for a boy but not very useful.

When I went to electronics school back in 1981, the school had updated it's one and only "modern" computer, a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a newer computer and I got the old TRS-80, the monitor, printer, disk drives, and everything that went with it. This computer also used BASIC programming language. I had a lot of fun playing with it, if you understood the very simple programming language, you could pretty much make the computer do whatever you wanted for it to do. I wrote a game of craps for it where you would roll two dice and play craps. Make your point, win, or crap out. I had a friend that liked to gamble so I made several gambling games for it, he paid me a dollar to play and then had to pick a card or a number and "watch the deck shuffle" or "the wheel go 'round" and if he hit, he would win anywhere from his dollar back to ten or a hundred dollars. Of course he never won, I made it that way, but he so very much believed in it that he always begged to play more and more. Quite funny actually.

I then moved to Florida and forgot all about computers for years. Then I needed a couch and a coffee table for my apartment and at a garage sale I found what I was looking for, along with an old looking "suitcase" that turned out to be a computer. The bottom flipped down to a keyboard and inside was a green screen and two 5 1/2" floppy drives! Well, I did not have the money for a real computer but asked what he wanted for it anyway and to my surprise, it was only $25. One drive did not work. I took it and got home, cleaned and greased up the non-working drive and fixed that as well. Now I was back into computers again with my first Compaq Portable computer. Of course I had no idea of what to do with it but my neighbor loaned me a book called "Running MS DOS 6.0" which was a "hands on" class on how computers worked and how to use one. I was hooked. I got a color monitor for it and a tractor paper printer for it and was off, writing on Microsoft Word 4.0 for DOS.

Then came a 386 SX 16Mhz "real computer", bulletin boards, the Internet, better computers, games like Doom (Doom was so outrageously cool that I actually had to buy a better computer in order to play this 3D game, at full screen size. My first 486 computer!), Linux, servers, networks, helping friends and neighbors and this is where it led me today. Still helping others with their computer needs and problems.

Here at Paul's PC Works, you get personal attention, one on one, and I make every effort to satisfy my customers. If it can be done, I will do it or find a way to get it done, be it by me or by referral, you will be well taken care of. I promise.

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