XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   People laughed at me when I said I wanted a desktop and a laptop with a   
   DVD drive.  No one uses those anymore, they taunted me.   
      
   Well, I was visiting my brother and sil, and good friends of theirs had   
   given them a telescope.  They live on the 17th floor of an 18 story   
   building, on a corner apt with a balcony.   
      
   And they are complicated. Setup especially. And guess what, included in   
   the box was a DVD.  Their computers would not play it but mine could. So   
   there.   
      
   It turns out, the telescope is still for sale new, a couple hundred   
   dollars iirc, but the file dates on all the DVD files was from 2008.   
      
   It included weblinks to the manufacturer, for warranty registration etc.   
   and none of the links still worked, It also included the user manual in   
   PDF, which is good because one of their new dogs** ate up part of the   
   paper manual.   I sent the pdf to each of their email accounts, though   
   afaict neither reads his or her email. But if they complain later, I'll   
   send another copy.  LOL   
      
   **The dogs are maltepoos.  Combination of a poodle with a malted milk.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)