Replying to a message of John Massey to Ed Hulett:

 JM> On 5/24/2010 12:24 AM, Ed Hulett -> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote:

 EH>> If you are so intelligent, why are you living off the government in a
 EH>> low rent apartment, fishing computer parts out of dumpsters?

 JM> Exact same question I have every time he gives financial advice.

The C: drive in Bob's Boneyard BBS cr*pped out last Sunday morning.  The
box was a 486/66 with a whopping 16MB of RAM in it.  The 'new' box is
a Compaq Deskpro (PIII, 650Mhz, 256MB of RAM) that I rescued from a
local junk yard.  The only thing wrong with it was the power button on the
front, but the former owner just threw it away rather than fix it; I replaced
that button with one I'd salvaged from an old Gateway box and it came right
up.  Took all of 30 minutes to figure out what was wrong with it and another
hour to dig out and install the replacement part (it's a big pile of 'parts'), cost
$0.00.  The 'new' box is just a teensy bit faster than the old one... 

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