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Just bought a new computer. Old computer, running W98, was showing its age. Almost a minute to load each email or ng message. Now it's instantaneous. I stood at Fry's for a half hour doing my best to look like a man without a computer. I brought 2 of the kids along so they could act up and the clerks would be happy to be rid of us (sorry, Pigo). Finally got some attention and worked my way out past all the other goodies. If Home Depot is the $100 store (you don't get out for less than $100) then Fry's is the $1000 store. |
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Richard Henry wrote:
Testing... Just bought a new computer. Old computer, running W98, was showing its age. Almost a minute to load each email or ng message. Now it's instantaneous. Huh? We bought my mom a computer at Fry's running win98 (when it was newish) and it doesn't take anywhere near a minute to download a message, and she only has a 28.8 connection. Do you have really picky anti-virus software? I stood at Fry's for a half hour doing my best to look like a man without a computer. I brought 2 of the kids along so they could act up and the clerks would be happy to be rid of us (sorry, Pigo). Finally got some attention and worked my way out past all the other goodies. If Home Depot is the $100 store (you don't get out for less than $100) then Fry's is the $1000 store. You just have no sales resistance. I can't remember the last time we spent that much all at one time on anything computer-related! -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== ==================== "Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft[0], recently referred to LINUX as a cancer. Unsurprisingly, that's incorrect; LINUX was released on August 25th, 1991 and is therefore a virgo." -- Kevin L |
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"The Real Bev" wrote in message ... Richard Henry wrote: Testing... Just bought a new computer. Old computer, running W98, was showing its age. Almost a minute to load each email or ng message. Now it's instantaneous. Huh? We bought my mom a computer at Fry's running win98 (when it was newish) and it doesn't take anywhere near a minute to download a message, and she only has a 28.8 connection. Do you have really picky anti-virus software? My wife and kids didn't realize it was MY computer. They kept loading layers of game-access trash. I stood at Fry's for a half hour doing my best to look like a man without a computer. I brought 2 of the kids along so they could act up and the clerks would be happy to be rid of us (sorry, Pigo). Finally got some attention and worked my way out past all the other goodies. If Home Depot is the $100 store (you don't get out for less than $100) then Fry's is the $1000 store. You just have no sales resistance. I can't remember the last time we spent that much all at one time on anything computer-related! Well, it wasn't all computer-related. Just the computer and the sweet 17" flat-panel display (I spent several years making military aircraft displays in the days when the best available was 8", at several k-bucks.) However, Fry's is a kind of general store. So we ended up with a pack of printer cartridges (cheaper than Wal-Mart), some school supplies, a couple of bags of beef jerky, and some $10 game CDs. Plus I have a couple of rebate coupons that will bring the total back down under $1000, eventually. |
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Richard Henry wrote:
Well, it wasn't all computer-related. Just the computer and the sweet 17" flat-panel display (I spent several years making military aircraft displays in the days when the best available was 8", Our first monitor was 9" b&w and I think it was under $100. Pitiful. at several k-bucks.) However, Fry's is a kind of general store. So we ended up with a pack of printer cartridges (cheaper than Wal-Mart), some school supplies, a couple of bags of beef jerky, and some $10 game CDs. My son works a few blocks from Fry's. He doesn't get out of the store without a Hot Wheels car or truck for the grandspawn. Plus I have a couple of rebate coupons that will bring the total back down under $1000, eventually. I like rebates. I like the feeling that I'm getting a better bargain because there are a lot of sloppy and stupid people out there who either forget to send in the forms or never learned to follow instructions. You did know that you can return used printer cartridges to Office Depot, who will give you a ream of paper for each one, right? I just bought some cartridges for a quarter each at a yard sale. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== ==== I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. |
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"The Real Bev" wrote in message ... You did know that you can return used printer cartridges to Office Depot, who will give you a ream of paper for each one, right? I just bought some cartridges for a quarter each at a yard sale. We donate them to the elementary school down the street's computer programs. They get the cash fromn the recyclers. They even provide mailer envelopes. Every room in the school is wired. They have several computers in every classroom, plus a computer lab where the whole class can work at once. We tried to donate an old Macintosh+. They didn't want it. |
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Richard Henry wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote: You did know that you can return used printer cartridges to Office Depot, who will give you a ream of paper for each one, right? I just bought some cartridges for a quarter each at a yard sale. We donate them to the elementary school down the street's computer programs. They get the cash fromn the recyclers. They even provide mailer envelopes. Every room in the school is wired. They have several computers in every classroom, plus a computer lab where the whole class can work at once. We tried to donate an old Macintosh+. They didn't want it. Nobody wants obsolete computers, not even poverty-stricken students who get them for free and who would otherwise have none. We filled the bed of the pickup with old computer stuff for the periodic hi-tech collection -- I wonder how much, if any, of that stuff got re-used. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== ==== I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. |
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Our first monitor was 9" b&w and I think it was under $100. Pitiful. You had a monitor? Such luxury! I did all my early programming on a DEC writer. //- Walt |
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Terd Fartingmor wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:04:36 -0700, "Richard Henry" wrote this crap: Luckily, by the end of the semester the college had put in a room full of crt/keyboard dumb monitors. I could only dream of such luxury! I had to use puchcards I have a Pascal compiler for an IBM360 on punch cards; supplied to me by Nicklaus Wirth his-very-own-self, no less. |
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"Terd Fartingmor" wrote in message ... On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:04:36 -0700, "Richard Henry" wrote this crap: "Walt" wrote in message ... Our first monitor was 9" b&w and I think it was under $100. Pitiful. You had a monitor? Such luxury! I did all my early programming on a DEC writer. My first timesharing account was on a teletype. Luckily, by the end of the semester the college had put in a room full of crt/keyboard dumb monitors. I could only dream of such luxury! I had to use puchcards! Do you know how hard it was playing "Star Trek" with punchcards? I remember checkers on the teletype. |
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Richard Henry wrote:
I remember checkers on the teletype. Yeah, that was some speech. Pat's "sensible republican coat". The gift from a lobbyist that he won't return 'cause the kids just love that dog. Makes me cry just thinking about it. Those were simpler times when it took over a decade to figure out that our leaders were lying to us. Things just move too fast these days. -Walt |
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