I'm not going to blow a ton of cash on a new computer, when there's a newer one right around the corner!

I'm not going to get a new computer now, because next year, I'm sure I could buy one that has double the processing power, and with twice the storage space for exactly the same price.

No, I’m not going to get caught in that consumer trap when in six months the machine I buy today will be completely worthless tomorrow. It makes better economic sense for me to do my taxes with an adding machine, write letters to my family by hand, and play solitaire using an old-fashioned deck of playing cards.

You see I know, that as soon as I give the hardware vendor my VISA card (if I had a VISA card), the computer system I’ve just purchased will already be incapable of running the latest-greatest must-have must-play games. I'm far better off with a chess board and a well-worn Monopoly game.

No sir, you’re not going to get me to buy-in on last year’s technology dressed up like tomorrow’s solution. I might as well buy a used machine--but I'm not stupid enough to spend money on obsolete technology. Where would that get me? Microsoft Windows '98? I might as well severe my arm at the elbow!

Believe me, I’ve been watching this play out for some time. It began way back when, when I considered buying that innovative XT computing machine. I held out then, because I heard they were working on the vaunted 286 machine--a much faster and just-as-affordable computer. And again with the 386. Sure enough, right around the corner was the 486. And then along came the Pentium. Was I going to buy one of these fancy machines with the screaming processing speed and the enormous 20meg hard drives? No. Because I already knew that the P-90 would be replaced with the P-133, and then the P-166. You realize how much money I saved by not getting suckered into that stale-dated piece of silicon crap? I could probably have been more productive with an electric abacus!