As he eyes the latest motherboards at PCs for Everyone, a Cambridge computer shop, Matt Burstein is the very picture of a technology geek. With his bushy beard, shorts, and sandals, he might have stepped right off the nearby campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Only Burstein actually stepped out of a workshop in Somerville where he restores antique furniture. He's not an engineer or software developer; indeed, he has had no formal training in computers. But he knows them so well that for a time the 46-year-old Burstein considered closing down his antiques business and going into computer repair.
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