Jim, it sounds like your clock battery problem would go well with our 5+ year old Panasonic cordless phones. Margaret's been fussing for a few months about them going dead while she's talking and cutting off whoever she was talking to. Of course, I just told her she was talking the phones to death.
Anyway, the battery indicators would never go any higher than indicating one-third charge, so I ordered new high priced batteries. The indicators in the 3 handsets still wouldn't go above one-third charge, but then I checked with my own multimeter and the batteries (including the old ones) showed a full charge. And we still get cut off, and now for the past week, one handset shows unable to connect with the base, even on the base. And that one handset will still ring one more time (with a funny sounding ring) after we answer with another handset. So this afternoon I took Margaret to Best Buy and had her pick out a new set of Panasonic phones, 4 handsets, "dect 6.0" digital, to replace the old 2.4 Ghz phones.
Ken, my first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer, 32k of memory (they had just come out with it to replace the earlier model with 16k of memory). I had it hooked up to a 13" RCA color TV for a monitor, and a portable cassette player/recorder to save anything you wanted saved when you turned it off. My first hard drive was a re-conditioned Radio Shack, 5 meg. external hard drive that cost me $300 and lasted just about a year.
And that hard drive was bigger than the printer I'm using now.
Frank, I've got a nephew who used to build his own and my brother's computers. He's now the Director of the Information Services Department for Kittitas County Washington. But the last time my brother (his dad) wanted a new computer, the boy told him he could order a new Dell cheaper than building one.
