Computers

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The Drive Caddy

You may ask, “What is a drive caddy and why would you need it?”  Good questions, which I asked for you so I could get this article started.  A drive caddy definition can be found on wikipedia, but it is simply a way to “mount” an internal drive externally. Let me explain.  If you have an internal hard drive (HDD or SSD) that is either suspect or needs to be mounted as if it was an external drive, I can put it in the external drive bay or caddy and mount it from there.  The caddy can turn the drive […]

A long, long time ago, in a city not that far away …

Back then No I am not going to go all Star Wars in you, at least not now.  It was a considerable time ago when I was still in college.  I was at a rather small college in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, called Northeastern University – Boston-Bouvé College.  There, I was pursuing a BS in elementary education.  There was one professor, who saw I had an aptitude for mathematics and liked things to be logical (he became my advisor).  He encouraged me to take a minor in Computer Science.  There was one difficulty, at the time there existed no […]