Re: Need assistance

NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
For that you could have bought her around 4-5 new quality 'college'
laptops & tell her that all but the hard drives are disposable if they
die...

Don't I know it; I've never paid more than less than[1] half that for a
computer before! But it was for a reward as much as just a really good
(or so we thought) machine for 4 future years. Who would have guessed
that it would cost more than a thousand dollars per semester?
Of course, laptops were more expensive in general then.

[1] I couldn't resist using that phrase, it is so..
stupid-looking. Is it understandable?

Cybe R. Wizard
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Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
"The Barsoom Project"

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