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   Nancy Backus to Daryl Stout   
   Re: pushing on   
   17 Oct 15 19:09:54   
   
   -=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 13-Oct-2015 09:30 <=-   
      
    > Chuckle.  ;)  My laptop has just been "upgraded" from an Epson 486 to a   
    > Toshiba Satellite Pro (don't remember if it's another 486 or something   
    > later)...  Last year, with my old one, my niece spotted it and exclaimed   
    > That's a Dinasaur!     My new one is pretty much a dinasaur, too, but   
    > at least it works...  ;)   
      
    DS> That is my logic to Microsoft constantly "forcing" people to upgrade.   
    DS> "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".    
      
   For sure.  :)  And for the record, I checked the "new" laptop... it's a   
   Pentium... but not particularly new...  ;)  The battery/charging system   
   is in much better shape than the old one... so I guess we had gotten to   
   the "I guess it's broke enough to fix" stage...     
      
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