" 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.

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