Upgrading and Fixing PCs for Dummies

Andy Rathbone started geeking around with computers in 1985 when he bought a boxy CP/M Kaypro 2X with lime-green letters. Like other budding nerds, he soon began playing with null-modem adapters, dialing up computer bulletin boards, and working part-time at Radio Shack. In between playing computer games, he served as editor of the Daily Aztec newspaper at San Diego State University. After graduating with a comparative literature degree, he went to work for a bizarre underground coffee-table magazine that sort of disappeared. Andy began combining his two main interests, words and computers, by selling articles to a local computer magazine. During the next few years, he started ghostwriting computer books for more-famous computer authors, as well as writing several hundred articles about computers for technoid publications like Supercomputing Review, CompuServe Magazine, ID Systems, DataPro, and Shareware. In 1992, Andy and DOS For Dummies author/legend Dan Gookin teamed up to write PCs For Dummies. Andy subsequently wrote the award-winning Windows For Dummies series, MP3 For Dummies, and many other For Dummies books. Today, he has more than 15 million copies of his books in print, which have been translated into more than 30 languages. Andy lives with his most-excellent wife, Tina, and their cat in Southern California. He wants a new LCD panel monitor for his main computer, but then the cat wouldn't have anyplace to sleep. Feel free to drop by his Web site at www.andyrathbone.com.Rathbone, Andy is the author of 'Upgrading and Fixing PCs for Dummies', published 0013 under ISBN 9780764516658 and ISBN 0764516655.