" 4 Wednesday, June 18,1986 ~ North Shore News

Bob Hunter

@ strictly personal ®

THIS IS a.story of a man,
his- computer, and_ the up-
tight skies of Planet Earth.

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7 have a keyboard that folds out,
revealing a little’ television set
covering half of. its face.’ Across
this screen: flow. my ..very words .
themselves..Om..: Me

It.is a model. which has. been
-discontinued,. but which I~didn’t
know. would ‘suffer this fate when I~
bought it three years ago... :

‘I mean, -haven’t paid for it yety, :

and already, it’s obsolete. :
. & Worse still, probably owe more.
on it than its current value f

authorization from corporate
heavies. But at the final gateway to
he tarmac, the system is incorrup-
tibl

If a ticket clerk or stewardess or
purser or ANYBODY decides your
oversize computer can’t go, it can’t
go! Unless, of course, you can
charm or intimidate them or stroke
"them ‘for a drop of compassion,
although it doesn’t usually work
with®. management. Try for a
worker. an :
* Once, after begging on my knees
and weeping for two full hours in
an airport, I got the computer sent:
across the Pacific’ ina ‘diplomatic ‘

“locker,” reserved normally for jew- °-

“my computer ‘has worsened.”
Lately 1 have’ been : forced ° to
bayi i :

Hospital funds
go for projects

FIGURES released at the recent
annual meeting of the Auxiliary to
Lions Gate Hospital specify that
$90,733 donated over the past year

_ has gone towards equipment, pro-

jects and service programs.

An additional $116,145 has been
pledged on equipment alone.

Some of the equipment for
which the auxiliary is responsible
includes infusion pumps, cardiac
monitors, a colonoscope, cibatome
and (yet to come) a_ cardiac
catheterization machine,
gastroscope, fetal monitor, Bear
ventilator and a surgical micro-

scope.

contemporary and:

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