# I ran out of computers.

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**Created:** [February 3, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ran-out-of-computers/611618 "2012-02-03T03:25:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ran-out-of-computers/611618/1 "2012-02-03T03:25:44Z")

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I never thought I would say that. Wife’s died last week. The one I stole from a former employer\* died this morning. My antique PII that I bought in 1999 died tonight.

I haven’t had to buy a computer since Wife’s, about four years back. This is disorienting, but the guy at Microcenter set me up with an off-lease HP for a buck twenty.

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  - “Hey Dave, if you want me to do this side job SINCE YOU LET ME GO LAST MONTH, I’m taking my old computer because all of my files are on it.”