You are right, Florence. old is relative. if it plays games...a kid will like it. if it finds websites...the cancer ward will like it. if you have anyway to find out if this isp is willing to give away laptops for this cause...would you let me know? as a group, the hosp. could pay to have them refurbished. it would be a great reason for a fundraiser...to get the laptops fixed. mike -----Original Message----- From: Florence Marmor <fmarmor@dorsai.org> To: Mike <sparrow@berkshire.net> Cc: MEDIEVAL <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com>; BIOG.GROUP <USBIOG-L@rootsweb.com>; **HOMESPUN <HOMESPUN-L@rootsweb.com>; NORCAL <NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com>; Sharon Ledgerwood <sledgerwood@fox-net.net>; SURNAME-QUERY-L <SURNAME-QUERY-L@rootsweb.com>; SURNAME-misc <SURNAMES-MISC-M@rootsweb.com>; SOCAL-L <SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com>; SHIPS LIST <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com>; CHRISTY <schnr47@softcom.net>; Doc Cottle <DOCOTTLE@UKCC.uky.edu>; Nick Santangelo <scnr@earthlink.net>; OBITS <GEN-OBIT@rootsweb.com>; RESEARCH- how-to <RESEARCH-HOWTO-L@rootsweb.com>; ROLL-CALL <ROLL-CALL-L@rootsweb.com>; SHIRLEY <kworth@gte.net>; ROOTS-L <ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Laptops? >On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Mike wrote: > >> that is a good question. i am going into the hosp. for a while and was >> wondering the same. I can't imagine how lonesome I will be without my >> friends. can't make for great recovery time. i have been looking at prices. >> what was i thinking? $$$$$. is there anyone who is selling a good lap top >> for real cheap or would like to donate one to the cancer ward? wow, what a >> great idea. I know there are a lot of computers out there in storage. >> Outdated or what ever. but what a great thing to keep people's minds off >> the issue at hand. from kids to adults. i fix computers so even if they >> are not in great repair... we could check it out. let me know. > >There are so many people out there who would love old, outdated computers. >My ISP provides computers to disabled persons and disadvantaged kids. >They fix them, too. If people would only think that someone can use their >old computers ... > >Florence Marmor fmarmor@dorsai.org edge of Brooklyn, N.Y > >Researching: Lissauer, Jonap, Bogar from Hunfalu > (Huncovce, Slovakia), Szuha Kallo, Szin and > Peder, Hungary (now Slovakia), etc. > Lissauer from Rawa Ruska, Galicia now Ukraine > Jonap from Felso Vadasz, Hungary > Bogar from Janik, (Janok, Hungary), Slovakia > Ringelheim, Weisenfeld, Scherz, Gross from > Manasterz and Tarnowka, Galicia > (now Poland) > Krauthamer, Spanier from Kolomeya, Ukraine > All the above SURNAMES plus Lesser from U. S. > >See our web page on Mokom Sholom Cemetery, Ozone Park, N.Y. at > http://www.jewishinterest.com > > >