Randy Lawrick, co-owner and one of the technicians at My Stupid Computer Store in Lafayette, on Friday digs into a piece of equipment.
Sales are up at the store, which sells many custom-built computers.
We have yet to see any further first quarter fallout, and when you have a change of control in the White House it takes a while to sort out all of the ramifications. The results of that may take a year to settle down. Not only did the closely watched report remain in positive territory, but the 2 percent figure was twice the rate of growth for the 2000 fourth quarter and double what many analysts had been anticipating for the January-March period. Computer sales have gone up. A lot of the computers people bought two years ago are outdated.