AboutDavid Freitag Expertise I can answer questions about all kinds of computers, operating systems, software and hardware in clear and easily understandable language. I have dealt with sorts of software and hardware issues in PCs from before windows to the present. I can explain basic concepts and deal with complex detailed issues in the guts of operating systems, including drivers, bios, hardware issues and software problems.
Experience I have over 3 decades of experience ranging from mainframes and minis and microcomputers to all flavors of personal computers. I have programmed in assembler language, Fortran, C, VB, C# and I have worked with the major relational databases. I have been a CIO of an energy company and I have provided hands on technical management for Windows software development. In the course of my career, I have had to deal with all sorts of configurations and nitty gritty system problems which exposed me to all aspects of personal computer systems.
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Education/Credentials I have a BS in Physics from CCNY. I have received credits from courses dealing with OLE automation and computer systems management from the AMA
Awards and Honors Phi Beta Kappa
Achievement awards for software development efforts in a leading Voip provider company.
Expert: David Freitag Date: 5/23/2008 Subject: how much memory
Question My family sings gospel music and we're wanting to try using a laptop as our accompaniment. I have a sister that plays a keyboard and we'd like to transfer a few of our songs onto the laptop, so she can stand with us while we sing and takes off pressure of playing, since she doesn't read music. We'd also like to load performance tracks from cd's and cassettes. We have a sound system but I'm not sure how it would connect to the laptop, like what kind of port would be needed. We're planning on using the Emcee Pro program to scroll words to the music and be able to key up whatever songs we wish to perform.
Answer Hi Vicki,
Can you provide me with some specifics about your sound system so that I can suggest a method of connection? In general, if your sound system accepts some sort of external jack, there are cables that can go from the laptop speaker port to the sound system input even if the jacks are not the same size.
What operating system are you running? For XP I would recommend 1 gig of ram and for Vista 2 gigabytes. A hard drive of 250 gigs should suffice for the type of activity you are describing.
