Computer Upgrade

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Thank you for your patience this last week of no postings…a much needed computer upgrade was taking place…I had a serious computer meltdown in January (blown power supply that took some other important parts with it…like the hard drive…) and had been limping along with the basic laptop we drag to the office for the occasional time when we have to access the MLS while we are there (most of the time we have done extensive work at our home office before we go to the office office…).

One too many restarts caused by the need to clear memory to do important functions forced me into to making the decision…XP or Vista…I decided Vista was not going away and got a sweet deal at BestBuy.com…and spent last week acquiring, setting up, transfering data from several sources and unpacking and getting comfortable using the new system… I like it…it’s fast, it doesn’t crash or need restart, it’s got a lot of good security features…even good games!  And I can upload pictures to it (an amazing hassle on a laptop with only 2 USB ports - one for the mouse and one for the printer) so this blog ought to become more interesting (stop cheering!).

When I first got in to the business, computerized MLSs were just starting…the first system I dealt with was essentially a teletype machine that you placed the telephone receiver into suction cups…printed out on thermal paper (don’t expose to too much sun…it would fade to unreadable in hours)…no fax machines (datagrams!)…no Internet…we’ve come a long way, baby!  Good for agents but especially good for the consumer!  More on that later this week.

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