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it s expensive, Mr. uay said ot the consultation services. “Not many can afford it,” he added.
Expense is one thing Blueridge Technologies is trying to take out of the computer industry.
The five-year-old business, located in the Flint Hill Square shopping area, brings the highest in computer technology to one of the most agricultural counties in Virginia - programming.
The business, opened and operated by two long-time Northern Virginia business colleagues now Rappahannock residents - Dr. John Jamison, and Craig Landrum -, hopes to take the complication out of computer technology with their newly designed workstations, more user-ready and affordable for the average businessman - the doctor, the lawyer, the insurance representative, the banker, the architech or the scientist.
“We build electronic file folders,” Mr. Landrum said, simplifying the business’s operations and adding that the program offered by Blueridge allows documents to be scanned instead of copied and the images stored on magnetic or optical disk for later use.
The program unique to Blueridge industries is “Optix” - a computer system, based on the Apple Macintosh System, which scans several types of materials, stores them on one disk, retrieves them easily, and/or can be as large as one desk top
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