Real Computers

If you walk down Tilak Road in Sadashiv Peth, you will find us at Astha Vinayak. We are right near the Maharashtra Mandal building. This area is always crowded with students and people working in the nearby shops. Our shop is full of old monitors, opened-up CPUs, and tangled wires. It has been like this for years. We started fixing computers when they were those big heavy boxes that took up the whole desk. Now it is mostly laptops and small gadgets. The smell of solder is always in the air because someone is usually fixing a motherboard in the back. We don't have a big reception area or anything. You just walk in and tell us what is wrong with your machine. Sometimes it is a virus, or the screen just went black for no reason. We spend a lot of time looking for spare parts that are hard to find. Pune has a lot of computer shops, but we like our little corner here. The fans in the computers make a constant humming noise that we don't even notice anymore. People from the neighborhood bring their PCs when they won't start up. We explain what needs to be done without using too many big words. It is just a place where we try to get things running again. We stay open late most days because that is when people finish their work and realize their computer is broken. It is a bit messy, but we know where everything is.