WA Rural Computers is the daughter firm of Ravensthorpe Computers. If you are interested
you can click here for the history of Ravensthorpe Computers,
but in a nutshell, Ravensthorpe Computers was launched on July 1, 1998 by James Elliott,
run by him until he and his wife moved to Boddington on March 1, 2004, and still provides
excellent sales and service to Ravensthorpe and the Great Southern region to this day, under
under the capable management of Alan Carmichael.
The Principal of both WA Rural Computers and Ravensthorpe Computers is James (aka Jim) Elliott.
Before coming to the bush, Jim was a medical scientist and had 20 years of expereince in
pathology laboratories with computers and computerised blood analysing machines. Computing
was also a passionate hobby of his, and in his last position in Perth, Chief Medical Scientist
of a large pathology firm, he was also the System Administrator for the computer
network which operated the analysers and linked the various deparments to the accounts office, and to the managers.
When that pathology laboratory was sold, the Elliotts moved to Esperance where they already owned some
land.
Three years later they moved to Ravensthorpe, at the end of 1997, where Myfanwy (Tim) went back to Nursing and Jim
decided to turn a hobby into a business, and launched Ravensthorpe Computers, on the 1/07/1998.
As a commitment to his new career, he successfully completed a certificate course in computer engineering, in Perth, which taught him how to build, diagnose, and repair computers, and then followed this with an IT degree from Murdoch University. He completed this
degree by distance education (Internet and e-mail) while operating his business and, over the years, has built up an incredible network of
epertise in differing areas of computing and IT, comprising University lecuturers; computer
manufacturers; service and support managers; forum experts; and even some overseas colleagues with
specialist expertise in differing areas.
Jim's aim is to bring computer and IT sales and services to the country and remote rural regions at city prices,
and both Ravensthorpe Computers and WA Rural Computers have succeeded in achieving
that goal: at $60 an hour our technical expertise is cheap compared with city labour charges, and their selling price for hardware is eqaul to, or cheaper than, many of the big
city stores - and even when prices are the same as city stores, you get so much more when you buy
locally:
