It wasn't actually dead, just sitting untouched in the office for a while. Franz is my Grove City Compaq, eight years old now, and I've been using John's work computer (which is here, since he's a telecommuter).
Maybe a week ago, John decided that it was time we got all my files transferred off it. Maybe we'd sell it for parts. That was fine with me. Franz was an excellent computer in its day and never once crashed during my college years. We'd spent many long hours writing papers together, but it had gotten pretty slow and had a battery life of about 30 seconds (just enough to push the boot button and then quickly plug it in).
But after fiddling with Franz a bit, John changed his tune. He ordered a new battery online! He taught it to understand wireless, so all I have to do is plug in the wireless USB thing we have and, voila, internet! Perhaps we'll have many more years together . . . just thankfully no more papers. :-)
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