Before computers were found in nearly every home in America, they were household tools of play and learning for Georgetown resident Frank Glover. He now makes his living fixing them for other people.
“Not to brag, but there’s not much about computers I don’t know,” he said. “I eat, sleep and breathe this. It’s basically been spoon-fed to me.”
Frank Glover says he can fix just about anything electronic at his new Geek Monkey repair shop in Ooltewah.He started “tinkering … tak[ing] things apart and break[ing] them” at age 10 when he got a Commodore 64. In high school he started doing computer repair work. By the time he was a senior he was “so versed in it,” more so than his computer programming teacher, that he taught the class, he said.
“Apparently [Mom] had the foresight to see that computers were going to be the way of the world; that everybody was going to have them,” said Glover, who has now spent more than 18 years in business in the computer field. “My mother actually remortgaged the house just to get me an Apple IIGS one time.”
Although he eventually “blew up” that computer, he has learned from his mistakes and from ITT Tech, where he got his degree in the late ’90s. The service work he does for customers at his new Geek Monkey repair shop in Ooltewah is covered by a 90-day warranty, as are all the parts and components he sells.