On 05/27/2010 01:50 PM, Bob Ackley -> John Massey wrote:
 BA> 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.

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

Welcome back. Don't get a bloody nose from all that speed. :-)

Ed

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