Richard Frisch

Tech addict. Richard Frisch runs RHFtech, providing: * General technology support to small business and residential clients. * Expert specialist services for digital home entertainment. RHFtech was started in 2004 to provide his knowledge, assistance, support and insight to others. He is a technology addict. * He was a ham radio operator as an adolescent and built a Heathkit transceiver for himself. * He started using computers in 1972 when he was introduced to BASIC programming as an MBA student at the Harvard Business School. * He was part of the team at Citibank in the 1970s that developed the modern ATM. Citi called them CATs, for Customer Activated Terminals. * In 1981, he was the first person at Smith Barney to use an electronic spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3 on a PC. Today he works on Windows, Mac, Linux machines and mobile devices. He is a member of the Microsoft Partner Program. He is a blogger and a journalist. He writes a column, The RHFtech Help Desk, which is posted by email and online, and published in The Hour (Norwalk), The Wilton Villager, and The Stamford Times. He makes frequent presentations about evolving technology topics to local groups. He is a member of the Connecticut PC Users Group (CTPC), and moderates the Random Access program at CTPC monthly meetings. He is a past president of the Fairfield County Computer Users Group (FCUG).