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Monthly Archives: December 2011

iFixit, saving the world one gizmo at a time

Posted on December 30, 2011 by janetgunter
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We had a lovely and unexpected visit to iFixit’s headquarters in central California today. iFixit is a company that started out of a dorm room at Calpoly in 2003. Founders were selling computer parts out of their dormroom.

Now, iFixit is poised to become the “repair manual for everything”.

Sound ambitious? We like it that way.

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