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Thanks.

Seeing Lydia throwing her laptop over the side reminds me someone gave me a
laptop, a quite nice one, a Dell Latitude a while back. It was dead.
Wouldn't charge......

Oops...waitaminit! The little green LED on the power brick wouldn't light,
either! Hmm....The power cord is a standard power cord, so I put an old
one on it out of my goodie pile....to see if the switching power supply was
bad. Nope....green light lit up. Plugged in the Dell, booted right up to
WinXP Pro. Let it charge a couple of hours....great.

I tried to give it back to its owner but he'd already gone and bought a new
one, having an excuse to "upgrade" without his wife pitching a fit and he
made me promise never to tell her or let her see it running.

I haven't. One of my friend's daughter is in high school. It's hers,
now...(c; Daddy bought her a wifi router and cable internet for her 17th
birthday....