DUDE.................Dad's gettin a Dell!

For as long as I can remember, my folks have been pretty frugal with their money.
When it comes to electronics, they usually get the lowest priced item and then a year later wonder why it only lasted a year.
For example, when cd players first came out, they decided to get a shelf unit consisting of dual cassette, am/fm tuner and a five carousel cd player. Nice huh? Until you find out they got no-name brand unit.
And sure enough, with in a year or two, the cd player stopped working. So then it became a shelf unit that just took up space on the shelf.

As far as the internet goes, they went with WebTv. Here's a modern marvel in electronics.
You hook up this box to your tv that comes with a keyboard (there are wireless models as well).
On plus is space. If you have a small kitchen tv set, one could get a small stand and put the box underneath and then just bring out the keyboard when you wanted to go online.
Another benefit was that you weren't suseptible to virus attacks.
As far as "online" goes, having used their WebTv, I can honestly say I was not impressed.
The dial up time seemed like forever, the online time seemed like it locked up constantly, and you actually had to be online to look at anything. Needed to get a number from your address book? Dial er up. Need to recheck an email to see when Aunt Gertrude was coming? Dial er up.
And if you were like my folks, you only had the one phone line.

So imagine my surprise when my mother sent me an email (via WebTv of course), that my Dad was getting a Dell!
Maybe there's hope for my folks livin in the present day yet!