Rick Burgess was a TechSpot Contributing Writer. The Interwebs was but a nascent glimmer when Rick began slowly pecking away at the keyboard of his first PC -- a truly archaic beige box brimming with high-end components like an 8 MHz 286 CPU, 128k of RAM and two 5.25-inch floppy drives. Since then, Rick's evolving experiences with digital things have been seasoned with repair and consulting work at independent computer shops peppering California's scenic coastline. Rick also had the fortune of being an Intel engineer, a system/network administrator for both Windows and Mac environments and operate his own computer repair and consulting business in Los Angeles.