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Acronym for Antiquated Technologies Academy, formerly the Advanced Technology Academy, but technology has passed the school by at the turn of the century.
A-TECH used to be the technology leader in CCSD.
A-TECH by Oler May 13, 2005

pretend-a-tech 

This is a person who knows a little more than the average person about computers but not enough to truly be helpful. Usually someone who knows enough to be dangerous or harmful to a computer or it's software but never truly fix an issue.

These people "Pretend" to be valid, professional, well-trained techs. Their charges for services tend to be higher greater than normal because they are really not out to provide a service but only to provide you with a means of blowing your hard earned cash on repairs and replacements that were never needed to fix the original issue.
You can tell a true computer tech from a pretend-a-tech by presenting them with a computer that needs fixed.

A real computer tech will:
Fix the original issue
Also fix any other apparent issues
Clean and optimize the hard drive
Check for Updates & MORE!
All in 2 hours or less for under 150 bucks

A pretend-a-tech will:
Ignore the stated issues
Find several issues that never existed
Recommend that several pieces of hardware need replaced
Cause several issues to come up as a result of their fix
Charge you for 5+ hours of work and tell you that you need a new computer (which you could have bought for the cost of their "service")

You can also tell a pretend-a-tech by the amount of "big" computer words they try and drop in a sentence, real techs understand that all people don't know "techie" and will translate into english, pretend-a-techs will try to complicate their little speech so a rocket scientist couldn't understand what they were saying.

This is where they get you, most people decide at that point that they must know what they are talking about since they speak the language.

The only way to avoid a pretend-a-tech attack is to ask for an explanation in english, if the english explanation makes no sense then you might be in the midst of a pretend-a-tech.
pretend-a-tech by Levi Doty October 30, 2007
a school that gets alot of shit talked about, mainly cuz its population ISNT drugdealin' dumfuks that probably go to some shitty ass scool like rancho or cheyenne (i.e. the guy above ^ ^ ^)
ya i go to a-tech, mainly so i can get away from the ugly centenial whores
a-tech by joe December 22, 2004
1. A magnet school located in Northern Las Vegas, full of nerds (a.k.a. an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits <computer nerds>)
-Wow, he goes to A-Tech, he has no life.
-You go to A-Tech, you sad excuse for a socal life.
A-TECH by Oranos December 16, 2004

Drop an A-tech 

When you’re busting for a shit in a residential apartment and no one is watching, then proceed to leave skid marks for the owner to discover later.
I need to go drop an A-tech
I need to clean up after A-tech
There’s an A-tech surprise here/ A-tech have been here.
Drop an A-tech by Wombat85 July 21, 2022

Tech A.D.D. 

Variation of TADD - An acronym for Technology Attention Deficit Disorder — a condition caused by the excessive use of multiple technologies likely to make it difficult to focus, pay attention or understand anything difficult or challenging.
When Ruth flunked out of college in her freshman year, some of her friends blamed it on Tech A.D.D. - her total immersion in social networking and text-messaging that made it impossible for her to read her course work, pay attention in class or grasp the basics of the courses she was taking.
Tech A.D.D. by Songpoet December 1, 2010
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