New Members - please post your introductions here

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As this is a brand new forum, I thought I'd open up a thread to encourage new members to introduce themselves a bit.. now hey.. let's not get too personal.. ok ?

And if you wouldn't mind to keep this thread "clean" let's try to keep the the chitchat (i.e. even the welcome to the board replies) to a minimum or this thread may get to 100 pages fast

So I'll start things off :

My name is petabyte and I'm a forum junkie. :oops: I've been off the wagon for a number of years and countless times I've tried to stop but it's useless.. I need to feed my learning addiction.. :!:

Now just a bit about me.. I'm a fairly secretive guy in terms of privacy on the net.. especially when the things you write are visable to anyone with a net connection. But I love to share the info and knowledge I have, so that's why I'm here, to share and learn.

my formal education is that of an electronic engineer and I held a field service position with a firm for over 20 years.. that job is gone now along with company car and laptop <cry> oh well..
So needless to say (but i will) I've always tinkered with things.. yes, a hacker.. (too bad that term lost it's orignal meaning) a hardware hacker mostly.. hacking fixes in whatever I find that breaks.. (except for cars, I have friends for that) I got started a little late into the computers, my first box was an ibm pc-xt with a whopping 10meg HD,blazing fast 4.66mhz 8086 processor, 640k mem running dos 3.3.. man was I cool back then.. :roll: nevermind..

so these days, I'm forced to be a software guy as well.. as I fix pc's for friends and that usually means cleaning virus/trojan/adware and reinstalling OS's.. yeah hardware breaks but not that often :cry: so as a result, I keep up on my software knowledge by visting a few security forums.. and trolling around a few hardware forums as well.

now I found this place from a thread at motherboards.org/forums
where I've been hanging out lately.. it's a nice friendly place with some pretty smart people.. mostly, of course, it's about mobo's.. So this person mentioned badcaps.net and I recalled reading articles a year or so ago about the faulty caps and was curious as to what you guys were up to.. and I said "w00t.. they have a forum"..

and so now.. you're stuck with me :P

so what's your story ? come on.. give it up..

hi

[SANDMAN007]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello I’m Fred, I’m really bad at introductions and writing about myself.

I started watching videos on YouTube from a user called Adamant IT and it really interested me and here I am trying to figure out how to fix/ learn how to fix a few Macs I own. I’m currently looking into a MacBook Pro a1989 with a random restart issue. I also have a Mac Pro “trashcan” that is super slow and seems like something is wrong with the logic board. Any who I’m here to learn and contribute.

Thanks
-Fred

[Kiwi Viking]

Hi I'm Kiwi Viking,
I come from the land down under, with connections back to Danmark.
I've spent some 20 years in various roles that centre around electronics, electrical and engineering.
I like to tinker under the hood, which is what set me on the path that I'm on.

[Gangubasus]

Hello! My name is Denis, I'm from Russia, I repair electronics.

[thekai12]

Hi I'm Maui
I come from the the Netherlands
After not finishing electrical engineering I decided to learn the field of repair. As I'm addicted to these puzzles.
Mainly doing camera motherboards.

[sibihu]

Hello, I'm sibihu.

I'm a Scotsman living in Taiwan. I bought an expired lease Thinkpad T470 with a non disclosed Supervisor password. The rabbit hole brought me here via Fluid Fix.
I have some general computing / repair knowledge but this is my first time down this branch of the rabbit hole.
I'm hoping BADCAPS will aid me navigating this branch. My Xgecu readied I begin...

thanks in anticipation

sibihu

[yotsimitsu]

Hi All, trying to help a friend to fix her laptop and in need of schematics

[Maxime Zorloni]

Hello, young French enthusiast by me computer and electronics.

[Salomon111]

Hallo, ich bin Salomon111, bin 61 Jahre alt und interessiere mich für Elektronik und Computer. Ich versuche gerade das Netzteil eines iMac24 von 2007 zu reparieren. Allerdings fehlt mir dazu noch der Schaltplan dafür den ich hoffe hier zu finden....

[gerenis]

Hi, my name is Istvan. I repair AV receivers as hobby.

[Srdjan01]

Hi everybody.
I'm Srdjan, from Serbia.
Thanks to my father, I have learned to use soldering iron as young child and I have been using it from here to there. From not long ago something hit me and I started to learn things about repairing electronics.
I'm more a reader then a writer and reading this forum is really a pleasure.

[KLONONE]

hi all.. im electronic repair from spain ,, thanks all for your forum

[Agraciano]

I'm an electronics technician in Brazil and I'm looking for diagrams and as I was always curious, I learned a lot on my own with the practice of agadeco from the creators of this forum and I intend to collaborate with everyone I have the opportunity! long live science.

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