Novice techie revives aging Macs

Byline: SUSAN PALMER The Register-Guard

Four years ago, Lorraine Kerwood didn't know RAM from a male sheep. A hard drive was a bad road through the mountains. The innards of a computer? Terra incognita.

Not anymore.

Kerwood can spill the guts of a Macintosh in mere minutes. She can swap out a busted hard drive, replace a fan with shot bearings, insert, say, a video card and - miracle of miracles - put all the pieces back together and get the system working again.

No one is more surprised about this than she is.

Until she took a basic computer ...