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Bill wrote:
What I don't want to do is get involved in any refurbishing myself. He
already turns up with laptops saying "could you just look at this"!

The first thing to fail in a laptop is the battery. If he doesn't want
them to be easily portable, why a battery powered device?

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*(on a baby-size shirt) "Party -- my crib -- two a.m

Dave Plowman London SW
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