Call for (really elderly) hardware
Thursday, July 12th, 2018 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelThe situation with the writing laptop is stressing me out.
There are folks who use writing as a coping mechanism in times of stress. I'm not one of them. But I do feel better when I'm writing, and worse when I'm not. And having the impulse to get something accomplished (or even just to noodle around in an old story) repeatedly crushed like the slugs trying to high-five in Flushed Away is getting very old, very fast.
I do have other computers: There's the "work" laptop that I'm typing this on, though I don't like the keyboard for extended writing, and there's the old desktop machine that's functional if I don't ask too much of it and the weather's not too hot. Hell, I could write with paper and pencil if it came to that; I firmly believe a writer should be able to write anywhere, with any tools. But the fact remains that I'm a lot happier, and more productive, with my preferred dedicated writing laptop and a suitably non-ergonomic place to curl up with it.
I've found a place online where I can buy something very close to what I was last using. I have some qualms about shelling out $250 for a twenty-year-old computer, but it may come to that.
Which, yes, brings me to another call for hardware: If anyone out there has an old, working laptop with a 3.5" floppy drive (any M$ operating system, Win98 or below actually preferred) that they'd like to see go to a home where it would be welcomed with cries of delight, do let me know.
There are folks who use writing as a coping mechanism in times of stress. I'm not one of them. But I do feel better when I'm writing, and worse when I'm not. And having the impulse to get something accomplished (or even just to noodle around in an old story) repeatedly crushed like the slugs trying to high-five in Flushed Away is getting very old, very fast.
I do have other computers: There's the "work" laptop that I'm typing this on, though I don't like the keyboard for extended writing, and there's the old desktop machine that's functional if I don't ask too much of it and the weather's not too hot. Hell, I could write with paper and pencil if it came to that; I firmly believe a writer should be able to write anywhere, with any tools. But the fact remains that I'm a lot happier, and more productive, with my preferred dedicated writing laptop and a suitably non-ergonomic place to curl up with it.
I've found a place online where I can buy something very close to what I was last using. I have some qualms about shelling out $250 for a twenty-year-old computer, but it may come to that.
Which, yes, brings me to another call for hardware: If anyone out there has an old, working laptop with a 3.5" floppy drive (any M$ operating system, Win98 or below actually preferred) that they'd like to see go to a home where it would be welcomed with cries of delight, do let me know.
