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Old March 11th, 2005, 09:12 PM
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Last summer I went to an elderly (90+ y.o.) neighbour's house to fix her Mac. She had the original 1984 model too, and was still happily using it for all her letters, accounts, planning holidays and even playing games. Even after 20 years, all it really needed was a new printer cartridge (thankfully not hard to find), the floppy drive cleaned and a bit of dust vacuumed out. It still looked smart, clean, and savvy and was quite pleasant to use.

padishahemperor is right. The "upgrade urge" is a very childish thing.
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