and then there was one...

My Thinkpad died last week. The CMOS battery was flat and when I replaced it something must have been unhappy on the motherboard as the machine would no longer start up (well, it would start, then stop on the way into Windows). Thank goodness for external hard-drive enclosures - I was able to retrieve all that I needed from the Thinkpad's disk, although much of it was backed-up already.
So...it's just me and the Powerbook now. It's a fine machine, now that I've upped the memory and increased the hard-drive capacity. I'll look around for an old PC in a month or so, though, as I need one to run Driveware for sound system setting up (and for Solitaire). It also seems essential (especially as I seem to insist on using second-hand hardware) to have two computers at one's disposal, so that if one goes down you can get online with the other one to seek help.