Re: Hardware

["SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>]

Jonathan Q wrote:

> Gee, I know that feeling.  A replacement battery for my
> HiNote Ultra was $200 in 1996.  I don't know if they're even
> still available or not anymore.  I was impressed they were still
> available then, for a machine that old and not even made by
> Compaq.

I think your machine was new in 1996, and it wasn't Compaq yet.

Meanwhile, I think Compaq is still more than half dead.  I mean, more than
half DEC.  'Course by now, the whole economy is more than half dead so that
hardly matters any more.

-- Norman Diamond