Profile: Nick Francesco

Personal background
Nick Francesco has been in the microcomputer industry almost as long as there's been a microcomputer industry. He's sold Pertec "orange toaster" CP/M boxes, Apples (even the ones before the Mac!), Osborne 1s, Kaypros, and Wintel PCs. He's done technical support for several large companies, and he believes that his 20 years as a professional actor uniquely qualifies him for his current job as Systems Administrator for the College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology.


Since 1989, he's done a computer call-in radio show called Sound Bytes, now originating from Clear Channel Communications affiliate WHAM in Rochester, NY. People call in, and he and the other members of the Sound Bytes crew answer any computer question they have (call your local Clear Channel affiliate to find out why they’re not carrying it). Since 1995, he's done a computer call-in television show on R News, Time Warner's all-news cable channel 9 in Rochester, NY (call your local Time Warner Cable affiliate to find out why they’re not carrying it). Since 1996, he's done a weekly computer Q&A column in Gannett's Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, NY (call your local Gannett affiliate to find out why they’re not carrying it). Since 1998, he's done a monthly column in Computer Link Magazine, Western New York's premier computer magazine (call your… never mind). In his spare time, he runs the Ask Nick! Web site, where he answers computer questions via newsletters and forums, the Sound Bytes Web site, and the Gloating Dance Web site (don’t ask…). He's known for answering questions simply, concisely, and logically, in language that does not confuse or talk down to the questioner.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't have any idea if extraterrestrial life exists, but I'd be kind of surprised if God didn't do this more than once.


We already transmit a beacon - in fact, hundreds of them. Television and radio signals shoot out of our planet every day. Some day, some aliens will form their opinions about us based on My Mother the Car...


I'm neither patient nor smart enough to be an astronomer, and I'm not healthy enough to be an astronaut. SETI@home lets me play. Thanks.

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