Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oberlin.bitnet!SLK6299 From: SLK6299@oberlin.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: HOW CAN I COMPETE WITH AN XT? Message-ID: <113840.2147405664@ocvaxa.oberlin.edu> Date: 3 Mar 88 11:38:40 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Oberlin Network News Lines: 30 Keywords: lovelorn, need advice Advert: POSTNEWS/READNEWS for VAX/VMS SCS7317@OBERLIN.BITNET My Insignifigant Other (henceforth, "I/O") just bought an XT. Since then, I've been completely ignored. He doesn't talk to me. He has no libido. All he wants to do ---I am not kidding you--- is read comp.sys.ibm.pc. "Oh, but I'm BEHIND!" he says. "There are over 400 messages that I haven't read yet! There's so much Useful Information I'm missing!" And so he sits staring at the annoyingly amber screen (I'm a big green-screen fan, myself) til all hours of the night. By the time he reads all 436 messages and decides to crawl in with me, I'm fast asleep. And then there's the Modem Conflict. He's taken the phone off the wall to hook up his modem. This makes ordering pizza absurdly difficult. Since I crash at his place far more often than I sleep at home, the only place people can get in touch with me is at "I/O"'s number. So now I'm completely cut off from my grandmother, my best friend who just had a baby, and my little brother whose birthday's next week. "I/O" thinks my attachment to these people is immature and "provincial," (he's terminally New York) which means there's no hope whatsoever of compromise here. You want to know the most irritating part? HE WON'T EVEN LET ME PLAY WITH IT. Like I'm going to break it or something. Now, I may just be a silly girl, but I get paid GOOD MONEY to work on machines nearly identical to the one he's got. I won't drool on the keys. I won't scribble on the monitor with crayon. But noooo... it's HIS toy, and even in the rare moments when he's not logged on, I'm not permitted to touch it. All right, XT fans. Is there any hope of competing with a 20-meg hard disk? Should I just dump the creep? He was bearable until the machine arrived. Should I permanently give up sleeping with him? I can think of no other options. E-mail any suggestions. I'll summarize if people are interested. Thanks in advance, Laura (SLK6299@ocvaxa.bitnet)