My experience with using personal computers goes back to the early 1980’s, so I’ve had more than my share of opportunities to set up, take down, reconfigure, and generally wander around computer peripheral cabling. The more I handle this stuff,…
Year: 2011
Computer Guy, Meet Sound Guy
Jeff
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