On a Baptist discussion board a most excellent friend of mine posted the following:
I recently purchases a new PC to replace my last new PC (purchased in Feb. 1999). I had upgraded the software, the optical drive, the harddrive, memory, power supply (mostly from scavenged machines), and was looking buying a newer motherboard, graphics, and sound card when it became obvious that just purchasing a new machine would be more cost effective. I really, really wanted to start from scratch and build a frankenputer but DELL had a better deal. Plus, I want to pass my new machine down to my kids in about 6 months (with plans to purchase a similar level machine so they can both have one).
Frankenputer?!? I thought that was pretty dang funny – it’s alive! – and just had to share it with you all. Truly a brilliant and worthy addition to the English language.
