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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeanne_N who wrote (84639)	1/4/2000 9:53:00 PM
From: 2ripley2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90042

monkee, LOL. Does it pass current emission standards? Upgrades are sometimes more costly than just getting a new one. Linda

To: Jeanne_N who wrote (84639)	1/4/2000 10:02:00 PM
From: smchan	Respond to of 90042

You joke about a wood burning computer, but my wife's family used to have some land and a cabin in the high mountains of North Carolina. There was no electricity and (until recently) no phone. One of our 'neighbors' who lived about a mile or so away didn't work and was a trader. He used a laptop which was powered by electricity he generated from a sluice that was fed from a nearby stream. I believe he said he used satellite and some kind of FM carrier to Atlanta for communications. I always got a kick out of this dude - a bushy bearded, old pick up truck driving good ole boy who was probably a millionaire. :-) I work for a major computer company, and I specifically recall him asking my opinion on some y2k plays he was considering back in '95 or '96. Sam