Free computer: Message 3: recommitted to lady

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:35:57, James McIntosh <jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I need income urgently, and this was a bad time to use up 4 days of my time.

Very unfortunate, but it should really not be terribly surprising.

A PC like that is *not* worth very much, and, more particularly, it is
not worth going through any kind of grief to enact an exchange.  And
it sounds to me like the personalities involved are too brittle for
that to work out well.

I'm sorry to say it, but it's really not worth it to try to preserve
elderly computers unless they have some sort of meaningful historical
value, and that's certainly not the case for a commodity PC.

And alas, that was definitely a distraction from economic priorities...
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