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Subject: A better machine? Let me know.

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 09:36:28 12/27/00


Happy holidays CCC,

Below is a letter to one of my female medical associates and her daughter.  I
decided to let you read it since it includes a reference to a computer system
that I wish that I had right now.  Juana is also a computer person.

Dear Juana and Jami,

Tim Frohlick here at TJ Froh Central.  I am having a good time in my
semi-retirement and plan to do some sort of medical work in the future.  Next
week I am going up to White Rock, British Columbia, Canada to spend a few days
with my parents.  Dad just bought a new car four months ago but he didn't like
it so he traded it in this past month on a more deluxe model.  I still have my
old Dodge Dakota 1987 pickup with 59,000 miles on it.  Must be nice to be rich.

I will probably get a new computer this next year since my brother-in-law got a
nice 733 Mhz machine from his girlfriend, Lindsay .  In order to keep up with
the Joneses, I must get a 1400 Mhz AMD machine with 512 Mbytes of 800 Mhz RAM
and an 81.9 Gigabyte Maxtor hard drive and a 3DFX Voodoo 5500 video card running
double video processors at 350 Mhz each and with 64 Mbytes video RAM.  Included
will be a double speed 1.44 floppy/ LS-120 drive and a Yamaha 16x12x40 CD-RW
drive with DVD capability.   I think a nice 21 inch monitor would top it off
nicely.  The computer does 0-60 in 0.000322 seconds.  Pretty fast, huh?

Keep safe and be happy,

Tim Frohlick

Maybe you guys out there can suggest a better machine?  I still can't beat Tiger
Gambit 1.0 game/20 minutes on my PII 333 with 96MB RAM.



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