Bj”rn Forsstr”m (2:203/614.61) wrote to Steven Horn at 18:14 on 29 May 2003:

 BF> It worked, I found you.

That wasn't difficult.

 BF> The unspecified number, is that to your BBS or fax?

It used to be the number I used for my dial-up connection to the Internet
and for occasional faxes but I've had it disconnected.

 BF> There where one more Steven Horn in Canada.

That's "There was one more ..."  But we are talking about persons
with listed telephone numbers and some of my namesakes may not have listed
themselves.

 BF> I also have to ask you, after reading in the Windows echo's. Many
 BF> of you over there are still using Win 9x and NT.  Why is that?

Some people like Win98SE and NT is fine as long as you don't need USB.  And
we have a lot of non-techie users here who have never seen the need to
upgrade their Operating systems.

 BF> I thought that at least W2k shuld be used. In all my 4  "working"
 BF> machines I have XP but I have "saved" 98 on the oldest one, a P
 BF> 200, just for fun. And I thought that you guy's should be
 BF> forerunners........

You can be a forerunner without opting for Microsoft's "latest and
greatest".  I just sent back a copy of XP Pro because I decided to
stick with Win2K

 BF> Or is it that expensive for you?

Relative to what I would expect that it cost you, probably not all that
expensive.  But you either have to want to upgrade or need to do it.

 BF> How much do you have to pay for a new "normal" computer?
 BF> Over here you can get one for about 6.000 SEK and one $ is about 9
 BF> SEK so that will be around 660 USD and that isn't much but if one
 BF> hasn't got it, it's very expensive of course.

$US660 translates into $CAN900 and one should be able to get an entry-level
computer for that or less.  However, one would normally expect to pay
around $CAN1400 for a working computer with a decent amount of RAM and
separate video and sound cards.  That would be 7,947 SEK.   

 BF> And finally, I have seen many . What does that mean? Does it 
 BF> mean Gee?

Try "grin".  It's an alternative to using the smiley, :-)

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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