Freeburg, Illinois
Technology Help, in Plain English.
From a simple question about your phone to migrating an entire data center full of virtual machines, we're here to help, without the jargon and without the condescension.
Coming Up
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What We Do
One Shop for the Whole Problem.
Whatever you've got (a slow laptop, a dead hard drive, a question nobody else would sit down and answer), start here.
Computer Sales and Service
Custom systems tailored to your needs and budget. Repairs, data recovery, and malware cleanup for the machine you already own.
Learn MoreOnline Services
Search, file storage, documents, bookmarks, and passwords. Entirely private, entirely local. No mystery data center, no ad targeting.
Learn MoreClasses
Password management, online security, office apps, and general computer use. Plus Linux, if you'd like to escape Microsoft and Apple entirely.
Learn More3D Printing
Custom signs, replacement parts, toys, tools, and miniatures, in a variety of colors and materials.
Learn MoreE-Recycling
Phones, tablets, laptops, PCs, game systems, stereos, VCRs, even that huge old CRT. Working or not. Bring them to us.
Learn MoreThe Museum
A hands-on home computer and video game museum, from 1972 to today. You don't just look. You play.
Learn MoreThe Museum
Systems You Can Actually Touch.
We're building an interactive home computer and video game museum, and the whole point is that you get to use it.
Early 8-bit systems. "No bit" analog games like the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. The powerhouse multimedia machines of the 16-bit era. DOS and early Windows. We've even got a collection of foreign machines, so you can see what our neighbors were using while we were arguing about Commodore versus Atari.
Opening Soon
1972 to Today
Online Services
Your Data. Your Town. Your Hardware.
Sick of AI in your web search confidently giving you the wrong answer? Tired of ads everywhere? Companies like Google are using your photos, documents, and email to train their AI and target advertising at you.
We offer the things you actually need online (search, file storage and sharing, document editing, bookmarks, password management), running on hardware you could drive to. No mystery data center in some random country, shared with who knows what other companies.
Private search, with no ads and no AI guesswork
File storage, sharing, and document editing
Bookmarks and password management
About Scott
Thirty-Odd Years of Making Machines Behave.
Scott has developed software for almost every computer, console, and handheld since teaching himself to program on a TI-99/4A, which is a long way of saying he has probably seen your problem before.
TI-99/4A
Where it started: self-taught, no manual worth reading
First
Server capable of four-player Doom over dial-up modems
1M+
Downloads of a Palm Pilot game built before there was an SDK
10 yrs
Cross-platform virtual reality, from the 90s headsets to Oculus
Come Say Hello
Don't Throw Your Computer Away Just Because It Feels Slow.
Give us a call or send a note and we'll set up a time. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth fixing.