It's sometimes hard to find a good selection of reasonably priced children's software.
      That's why Quid'•nunc is the store to shop first!

      SPECIAL BLOWOUT OF CHILDREN'S SOFTWARE FROM $5 to $20!

      All Dorling Kindersly Titles including:

         Most titles below work on either Macintosh or Windows platforms.

Thanks For The Fun & Memories!

Quid'•nunc had a great 6" Anniversary celebration during the weekend of November 11-12 and (even though it's been said many times before) a GRAND TIME WAS HAD BY ALL! Special thanks to everyone in the West Seattle community who dropped in to wish us well as we celebrated six years in business. Our friends at the Husky Deli provided the great food. Congratulations to A.L. Pricco of West Seattle who won our anniversary giveaway, a CDRW (very cool recordable CD-ROM drive; if you don't own one now chances are you will in about a year!).

Hard Drives & Upgrades

Generally speaking we're of the mind "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Meaning if your computer system works fine and you are happy with it don't go spend a lot of money upgrading the system just because you know someone who is constantly upgrading and likes to have the latest bells and whistles. On the flip side you should also know that computer parts do wear out or become obsolete with time.

One thing most average computer users do not seem to be aware of is that just the act of filling up your hard drive space with stuff can cause a system crash and the possible loss of ALL YOUR DATA! Yup, strange but true. It's not common, but we've seen it in our repair shop from time to time - a complete loss of data brought on by a full hard drive.

Our experience leads us to recommend these guidelines - 10%-20% free space for hard drives 4 GB or smaller. For all drives, at least 3 1/2 times the memory (RAM). With 64 MB of RAM, this means 224 MB of free space. Personally, once I get to 10% or less, I start thinking new (or additional) hard drive. The problem is that today's programs take so much more space. You can be feeling complacent with 500Mb of free space (after all, that was a large hard drive just four years ago) and then you load Microsoft Office and nearly half of it is gone. Two years ago a big game took up 25 MB of disk space. Today it is not unusual for a game to recommend 600 MB or more!

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Class Schedule      There are no classes scheduled for December. Quid'•nunc classes      will resume after the holidays.      Seasons Greetings and have a Happy New Year!