Computer...upgrade or new ?????

[adrian]

It's even better than that. I was told by a help desk person at Telstra that they recommend you reinstall Win98 at least once every 6 months to prevent connection problems.

My pc is a pentium 200 that I built about 7 years ago and my hard disk gets repartitioned and formatted on an annual basis. It's amazing how much the performance improves. It's the computer version of a colonic.

[adrian]

But, the battery runs for about three hours which is enough to rattle off 3,000 words of a novel. I go for a walk and by the time I'm ready to fire again, the old girl is fully charged ready for another attack.
Richard

You're a better man than I gungadin. It takes me a whole day to write 2000 words. I've been hinting to my daughter for a laptop for ages. Maybe before she comes to OZ next time I'll include some URLs from Dell and HP in an email and tell her I would have written sooner but I've been waiting for my PC to boot up. That might work........