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Article #114814Re: What's up with your name?
From: wizofwas
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:00
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I am the wizard of what was. I started repairing old Nova 1200 computers in the mid 70's, and became one of the best in the country at doing what I did. I had to repair everything on the system (cpu's, monitors, tape drives, disc drives, plotters, digitizers, printers). And when I say repairing, I mean down to the chip lvl. Anyway to make a long story short, the technology today has put me out of work. That's where the "was" comes from. The Wizard comes rom a cartoon I saw on a customers bulletin board, of a Wizard waving a magic wand at a cpu to fix it. The caption read, " I don't know, but I think he's from CV." and somebody had penciled in "Fast Eddie? Charlie?" Well the Sys. Mgr. saw me looking at it, and I said "I take it that that is a complement." And he said that it was. So that is the story of my handle. Different and unique. As a side note, Fast Eddie taught me the first thing to do in computer repair. Be lazy, go for the easy stuff first. 90% of the time it's an easy fix. In and out and no call backs. I hated call backs. wizofwas Crush all of the evil barrels
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