Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:26:04 12/07/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 10:58:15, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 07, 2000 at 10:56:19, Uri Blass wrote: ><snipped> >>If you want to give a gift for someone than a combo of 486 that you do not need >>and a chess program may be better. > >Another point is that in most of the cases the person you buy a gift for >him(her) has a computer so you need only the chess program. Well, of course the case I have given applys the most to that kind of person that does not have a PC. Respect your argument about cheap old PC,'s that's true in sheer financial and technical terms, but to give a second hand device is somewhat ugly even if asociated to a new one, don't you think?, at least not the kind of gift in which I think when I desire to give something to a loved one. There is more in a gift that the mere utlity of the thing you gave. Clearly It is a lot more refined and a better show of apreciation to give brand new things without the obvious calculation inbuild into it of cost and perfomance. Old things you give to institutions and/or deprived people in any ocasion, any day, but not in Xmas or in a birthday to your son or brother or lover or wife. Just a matter of customs. Fact is these machines are produced and sold, so someone buy them... Fernando
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