XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, corel.wpoffice.wordperfect10, alt   
   windows7.general   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   > At a nearby thrift store, there has been a laptop for sale:   
   > "untested". $9.99 plus tax.   
   > 	It works, has all the stuff for it, still in original case.   
   > Windows 95.  So the question came to me ?Do I have the install disks   
   > for an earlier version of  WP?   
   > 	And this is the portent.  I was able to find the storage drawers   
   > with all the 3.5 floppies in it, near the top of the pile.  And   
   > unsealing the drawers, in the first (of six possible) drawer, were the   
   > install disks.   
   > 	And they still work, so I now have an antique laptop for general   
   > note taking in the Study (which is generally "off-line" and not the   
   > computer office.)   
   > 	I do not know if this is a good thing or not.   
   >   
   > tschus   
   > pyotr   
   >   
   > and like the old man "Confessing?  I'm telling everybody!"   
      
   And the machine doesn't have Spectre or Meltdown either.   
      
   You'll probably have to write your own malware for it.   
      
       Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)