Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Greetings to all from the Pacific Northwest, and then inland a little ways...I too am thrilled to have found this forum. Tinkering with Macs since the late 90's, I was one of many with the pesky viewsonic Q19wb that suddenly quit (no power) after 1 year and two months of use. Got the usual run-around, searched and searched for info and/or replacement parts, and just recently unloaded a pile of old computer parts (and my first Mac Performa 6400 that I hotrodded as far as they were capable of being hotrodded) to a major tinkerer...