On Saturday, December 2nd, 1995 - Terry Russell wrote:
 
TR> Oh thats not what I meant, honestly I don't consider I lost anything. 
TR> I guess your right though and it was not a bad thing. I kinda felt at 
TR> lost cause I pictured them as kids wanting a computer and I enjoyed 
TR> the feeling, but when I found that they had kinda hoodwinked me I 
TR> felt robbed of the feeling of being the provider of their happyness. 
 
And to be sure, if they had TOLD you a lie and said that they wanted it
because they were poor and had no computer, then I think you could be
legitimately angered at being deceived.  From your story, that doesn't
seem to be what happened though.
 
TR> Looking at it the way you are saying though I guess I still got that 
TR> only in a different way, maybe someday these kids will grow up to be 
 
Exactly.  The transaction that occured was still the same, it was only
your attitude which changed (after you saw them at their table).
 
It is my hope that these experiences would not cause people to stop
giving their old unused Ataris to good homes.  We are all going to be
scammed a certain percentage of the time.  We shouldn't let that stop us 
from giving opportunities to the others.  The Atari 8-bit is the best
8-bit for teaching kids about computers and programming.
 
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