Over years I began trading advertising space for more used computers, getting an entire system, a Mac IICx and 21 inch monitor for advertising space! Later I needed better systems and began looking around for where to get them , then I discovered Ebay (http://www.ebay.com), after a conversation with a business contact. I began searching for what i needed and found that timing my bids in a certain manner often assured my winning bid on need equiptment.

I was able to bid on software and hardware that would have cost me hundreds more at retail. To date I have about $5000 worth of equiptment and software that cost me less than $1500 to buy! You might say why bother looking for used stuff when new cost so little?

My answer is that you may not always need new stuff if some of older stuff will do. Take computers. I am now using a five year old Mac Power pc with 34 megs of ram and system 8.1, I use it mostly to web browse and desktop publish. I use a 56k modem too.

The processor on this machine is 90mhz, properly configured machine brings my web pages up rather quickly, my mail downloads are quick aswell, both machine and 21 inch color monitor I use are used and work very well and have cost far less than new! For alittle effort and some sound research you too can save money and have a good system, If however you are one of those people who has to have everything new than God bless you and go right out and get what you need. I have never paid retail for a computer related item and never will. Bartersites and trade sites of every kind are turning up on net, just go to any browser search engine and type in BARTER or EXCHANGE OF SERVICES or AUCTION and COMPUTER , you are bound to find what you want for much less than full price. Once you start getting what you want in a computer for less you will wonder why you did not do this sooner.

Never pay for anything you can barter for.

Today ofcourse you can get a free computer from a big online provider or other company if you are willing to sign up for internet service for a year or more in some case and endure a mountain of advertising on your browser. Just go to any search engine and type in FREE COMPUTER. My own site at http://mnbey.freeyellow.com has links to bartersites and message boards to post your needs to. Good Hunting.

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There is a nested loop here. Study flow of for i=0 to 4 loop. The outer loop holds index of item that will be compared with every other, next item. For instance, when first cycle of loop begins, i is zero, and when program ends nested loop, j starts at i+1, that is, 1. So turn by turn, item at index zero is compared with every item in array. The outer array goes only till 4 because when nested loop begins, second last item will be compared with last item: j=i+1

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Now we see use of a dynamically defined array, and how that array can be filled using inputbox() function.

strings is an array that is re-dimensioned whenever user types in a new string. When we declare an array, we reserve memory space for that array, that is, if we say

dim arr(20)

it means we are reserving space for twenty data items. But what if user enters just five items? The rest of space is wasted. To avoid this, we declare a dynamic array.

In above script, we have a loop whose continuance depends on user input. It keeps on loop until user enters "fin". So, when "fin" is not entered, only then dimension of array strings is increased.

When we are re-dimensioning an array, we have to use keyword preserve to preserve existing content of array. In its absence, array gets re-dimensioned, but values are lost.

Exit do forces program to come out of loop if condition that terminates it, occurs.