About BITS Of Knowledge
BITS Of Knowledge began business on March 5th 1993 and is privately owned and operated by Dan Westlake and is located at 796 Dundalk Dr. London, ON.
My first computer was a laptop as an insurance agent with The Prudential in 1989 which was an XT with DOS 3.21 and a 20 MB Hard Drive for $3495.00. Not knowing anything about computers I learned by reading the DOS manual and trial and error (school of hard knocks). After being an insurance agent for 16 years I left the profession in 1993 and John Read, a manager suggested I perhaps start a business teaching people how to use computers since there appeared to be a demand.
First I had to come up with a name. I had computer knowledge and since ads in the Yellow Pages were listed alphabetically I wanted something that would be catchy, near the beginning and had something to do with computers. I submitted my resume to Fanshawe College and instructed numerous computer courses from 1993 to 2002. The BITS Of Knowledge BBS started on July 1st 1993. From the time the BBS was running until it was moved to it's current location on the Internet in 1997 we had received over 97,000 calls into the system from 2 dial up lines so you can tell we were quite popular. :-)
Type of work I do.
I do service work in my shop or on site. In addition to my $20.00 hourly rate I charge $20.00 for on site service calls. I have flat rates for most jobs so you know the cost up front.
I do computer service solving software and hardware issues. I also
do networking, bookkeeping covering the gambit of GST, PST, HST,
Payroll, WSIB, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. Of course I
also do basic web site design and can arrange hosting of your web site
too.
About the web site.
While I try to make my site attractive, my main concern is it's speed so you won't find a lot of fancy graphics or sounds and you'll also find it easy to navigate around the site. My domain was registered through and my site is hosted by Start Communications who I highly recommend. For additional details, feel free to leave a comment to me, your message will be private and I will reply promptly