Re: Question from a friend.

From: kathycarp (kathycarp_at_comcastprivacy.net)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:04:44 -0800

I hesitate to even respond because I am not a computer expert by any means.
But, I do think there is a big hole in his theory... even if Bill and AOL
were in cahoots and upgrading corrupted files... that doesn't mean one would
have to buy a new computer!

Computer Guy sounds fishy. But then he *did* make his $150.00 on the deal,
didn't he? Maybe he's in cahoots with Bill Gates. <snicker> 

-- 
Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"Becky Young" <blupencl@aol.combadstuff> wrote in message 
news:20050111215030.06900.00000075@mb-m29.aol.com...
> This is a very good friend of mine. She has older computers and is not 
> really
> in the position to go and buy a new one at the moment, which is the 
> obvious
> best solution.
>
> Here's her e-mail to me. I told her I'd share this with people who know 
> more
> than I do about computers. My opinion is that her computer man is full of 
> crap
> and doesn't know how to fix her computer.
>
> I just heard from her tonight (this e-mail was from yesterday) and he 
> tells her
> he has fixed the computer without being told to do so, bring $150 and pick 
> it
> up. He wasn't supposed to fix it. He was just supposed to look at it, call 
> her
> back and tell her what he thought. She's mildly aggravated.
>
> ~~~~~~~~
> Howdy...How is it going??? I just came home to work.  My computer is back 
> at
> computer man and here is his theory....Microsoft and Bill Gates have not 
> been
> selling their usual number of new computers and thus he has not been 
> getting
> his Microsoft $150.00 per computer, so somehow he is in kahoots with the 
> AOL,
> YAHOO, and maybe some other to make their new versions 8.0 and 9.0 AOL
> incompatible with old computers  and they corrupt the software thus making 
> it
> necessary for people to buy new computers in order to get their Internet
> servers to work.  WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS????  He has had 75 
> computers in
> his shop since November that have the same problem.  When they tried to 
> upgrade
> AOL they corrupted all their software.  I said my old 4.0 is working 
> becaue it
> has not been upgraded, but he does not know how long it will continue to 
> work.
> Becky Young
>

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