The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for July 22, 2010

After watching ‘The Story of Gangstalicious,’ Granddad needs to upgrade his cell phone as well.

That computer was obsolete the first time around, and probably when Granddad bought it second hand back in 1996!

If it was running Windows ME, Grandpa should pay him.

I just had a computer problem similar to this one. My 2002 comp can’t be restored and HP never packaged disks with it. The Hive file is missing and I can’t even format the drive to erase my data, so I ended up pulling the drive and going to donate it.

Unfortunately, most people do their violence to the monitor, not the CPU. A classic case of ‘kill the messenger’.

Now you have to go pay to recycle it (unless you can find one of those special collection drives).

I love/hate computers.

Where we live, the Apple Store accepts ALL electronics (PCs, phones, chargers, TVs, batteries) for recycling at no charge. I’m not sure if that’s a local initiative in one particularly progressive part of Brooklyn, or if it’s Apple policy for one or more categories of stores. But it’s great - simple for the people, and probably the volume makes it cost-effective for the store.

I think Granddad is exaggerating; a 1996 computer is unlikely to be able to do anything either online or with media like disks. Wasn’t 1996 before 3.5 inch floppies? But to him 1996 sounds so recent that even if the truth is that it was a 2002 model, he’s expressing his point honestly. Time flies faster and faster, the older you get.

@Avon the 3.5 inch was was developed in 1973 and by the late 80s it was more common than the 5.25 inch, by the mid 90s the 5.25 inch was all but gone…. so a new 1996 system would deftly be a 3.5 system