On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:45:51 -0800, johns wrote:

I learned the hard way to stop taking these old flakers
to raise. If you build her up a junker, it will fail too,
and no doubt take down her tax records and retirement
account, and she will blame you and haul the thing to
the XBOX PRO-TEENS who will charge her $300
just to recover her data onto a floppy. You will be in
to this for the rest of your life, plus lose a friend while
trying to do her a favor. Tell her to buy a DELL, and
get it going for her. If she says she is starving to death,
and will have to go raise camels in the desert, just
smile and say, "That sounds like fun, and you can
send me an email about it on your new DELL." If
she needs someone to complain too, she can call DELL
tech-support. They specialize in little-old-lady ( LOL)
Psycho-lology, and you can get your life back.

johns

First, she only puts her checkbook on there not all of her tax records.
She's not that computer literate. She doesn't have a retirement account.
Second, she does NOT have the money to buy a new computer. Why do you
think she ended up with this junker to begin with? I'm glad you think that
elderly people can just quit eating in order to buy a new computer from
Dell. That's not the real world. People living on just social security
don't have the funds to go out an purchase new computers that have much
more power than they really need. I use old computers all the time and
from my experience, sometimes the old ones last longer than the newer ones
(remembering my old KT7 w/RAID motherboard that died while I have a much
older Biostar that is still running). If I didn't have a need for the
older computers I'M using on my home network, I'd just give her one of
those, they'll probably last for years.

Patty