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Serving the Kansas City metro area since 1995 Phone: 913.963.5197 |
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I’m the tallest one and I usually dress |
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My name is Chip Cooper. I grew up in Fairway, Kansas. I went to KU where I was the treasurer of my fraternity. I didn’t want to keep track of payments, etc. on paper so my dad purchased an Epson QX-10 computer for me to use. IBM released its first personal computer at that time. I thought mine was much better because it had 376KB floppy drives and the IBM’s only had 360KB drives. I typed papers for other students and wrote a program to handle billing and A/R for the fraternity. I graduated from KU in 1986 with a BS in business.
After graduating, I married Tracy, my high-school sweetheart and we moved to Arizona to try a different area for a few years. I was intending to go into banking but found a part-time job with a computer rental company and found that I really enjoyed working with computers. I became the full-time operations manager of AccuRent Computer Systems where we rented computers to businesses and convention guests.
The owner of AccuRent purchased a MicroAge Computer Store which was a full-service retail/training store. I became the training manager and taught classes on a wide variety of software packages.
We moved back to Kansas City in 1990 where I continued teaching classes for another MicroAge on the Plaza. When the MicroAge was closed, I went to work in the IT consulting division of Ernst & Young - a large accounting firm. I decided I didn’t want to travel so I resigned and started working on my MBA at Rockhurst University while providing contract training.
Two years later I received my MBA and started Just Ask Computer Services. I advertised for the first year on radio and in The College Boulevard News. I still have some of those very first clients. All new business since then has been through word of mouth.
I have seen a lot of changes in the computer industry and am continually learning new things which keeps it interesting. We all have our gifts and with a name like Chip, mine had to be computer related! |
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My first computer
Dual 376KB floppies! (the IBM PC only had 360KB drives - I was proud of those extra 16KBs :) Anyone remember VALDOCS? |
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My second computer
I still have it in my basement. Fired it up last year and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 started to boot and then crashed. DOS 6.22 works great though as does dBase II, WordPerfect 4.1 and Wordstar. Quite a trip down memory lane... |