“Dana Stibolt was in his early 20s when he started seriously tinkering with Apple computers at his parents’ computer shop in Severna Park. It was the late 1980s and the computer that he taught himself to fix was called the Macintosh Plus,” Gus G. Sentementes reports for The Baltimore Sun.
“Stibolt developed an expertise in fixing the computers and he was willing to take his knowledge to the homes and offices of desperate customers. He turned his car into a moving inventory of spare computer parts, becoming, in effect, a computer doctor who made house calls. His company, MacMedics, was born,” Sentementes reports.
“Some of MacMedics’ biggest growth spurts came early in his business, when other shops gave up on fixing Apple computers, thinking the company would go out of business. Stibolt now employs 20 workers and has three offices that serve the Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia markets,” Sentementes reports. “But he’s also expanded into consulting for companies looking to build corporate networks with Apple computers and servers. His company has expertise in integrating Macs and PCs. For most of its existence, the company’s been profitable, Stibolt said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Imagine that, catering to people who are smarter and make more money than the average schlub is a viable business. Who’da thunk it?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
