Bruce is the owner of Tech Support. He started on computers in High School (in the '70's) with a DEC writer. It was a TTY - (stands for teletype), which was a wide carriage printer with a keyboard. He wrote programs in the BASIC programming language, and ran them on the school district mainframe. He also made his own circuit boards from scratch, and put together several projects with them such as a color organ (lights that change with music) and a burglar alarm.

In college later he studied the COBOL, FORTRAN, and BASIC programming languages. He also did a little with machine and Assembly languages, and programmed instructions into minicomputers (the next step down from mainframes) with toggle switch registers. He's so cotton pickin' old (in computer years) he actually did some card punching and made paper tapes too. He's also worked in marine electronics servicing radar, sonar, and radios.

When the microcomputer made by IBM PC first came along (in the early '80's), Bruce was working for a utility company and became the 'go to' guy for the engineering department computers. He remembers when hard drives first came out (his first one was 10 megabytes) and used 'floppy' discs that were actually floppy. He also used the SAS programming language and ran computer programs on the utility mainframe for the gas marketing department.

In 1987 he bought his first personal computer, what was called a 'clone' (after-market copy) of an IBM XT ($1,700.00 for that puppy with an 80 character dot-matrix printer). He wanted to make sure his kids would know how to use computers because they were going to be the tool of the future. After several upgrades it just wasn't doing the job, and ever since he's kept up with technology and been the 'go to' guy for family and friends. Oh, we don't always have the latest and greatest, because that's just not necessary. The computer should do the job you want it to do and do it well. A person doesn't always need cutting edge (and expensive) technology just to do a little word processing or use a tax program for cryin' out loud.