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 Message 745 
 Alan Beck to Charles Stephenson 
 Battle of Britian: Th 
 21 Apr 20 06:49:47 
 
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My stratagy  is to dump in in a cart and wander around thinking.

I have found many useful things at thrift stores.

Missed out on an Atari game emulator. Put it down turned the corner, went back
and it was gone.

Cheers,

Alan 



 CS>   Re: Re: Battle of Britian: Th   By: Joacim Melin to Charles Stephenson
 CS> on Wed Oct 30 2019 08:13 am

 CS>>> I randomly go to thrift stores. I've ran into 2 iMacs, both didn't have
 CS>>> the keyboards.  I thought about getting one and seeing if I could  find
 CS>>> a keyboard on eBay or someplace. I still might go get it!  The one has
 CS>>> been sitting for awhile...

 JM>> You can use any USB keyboard and mouse with Mac OS X / Macos, regardless
 JM>> if it was made for a PC or a Mac. Some keys will need re-mapping in
 JM>> software (easy to  do in the system configuration) though.

 CS> I ended up thinking about that computer for a WEEK, debating if I should
 CS> buy it or not.  after 2 weeks of pussy-footing around I went back to that
 CS> store happy and confident it would still be there and I'd finally have
 CS> one of my dream computers only to be disappointed!

 CS> I asked a store clerk about it, she said it was sold like 3 days before I
 CS> got there, I wanted to kick myself in the balls. :(
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