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> "Bear" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.22efdbed24e86313989db5@news.individual.de...

>>> There are people like that out there.
>>> They worry me, but they are out there...

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>> Oh sure. I just like winding up the AppleSlaves :)
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> Is a problem, isn;t it? They are lovely machines but have the owner in a
> strangle-hold, somewhat. I much prefer a pile of pick-and-mix all wired
> together and arguing madly, but it was the way I was brunged up.
> .
> We are dying out, you know. Those of us that started off with a computer in
> a plastic - and sometimes, a plywood - case and having to expand by way of a
> soldering iron and a prayer.
> Prob mentioned it before but I once fixed a broken board connection with a
> bit of silver paper and spit.

> You can't not do that no more... Sigh...