Well,

sometimes having friends in low places is a good thing.

A guy named Jim runs our local transfer station. When I whined to him about my current computer woes, he took me around back to the private portion of our "give and take"

Dell Pentium 4, Model 4550. I verified that it boots then jumped off and back onto the Dinosaur to grab the driver I need to set up the wireless internet.

Hardley a new machine, but saved me hunting high and lower for an economic replacement for the defunct e-machine.