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Chapter 19 ----Working from home-------- INDEX | HOME

It’s Monday afternoon and Mr Frost is asking Rosa about her weekend.

"Were you lonely all by yourself in the house while we were in Oxford?"

Rosa decides to tell him the truth.

"Actually, I spent Saturday and Sunday in Brighton with a friend."

Before they can finish the conversation, the door bell rings and Mr Frost

leaves the room. There are two large boxes for him. He thanks the

delivery man who helps him carry the boxes to his office. Then he

returns to the living-room where Rosa and the children are waiting with

interest.

"Daddy, what have you got?" Elisabeth asks.

"Come and see!" is Mr Frost’s answer.

They all go upstairs. The children do not often enter Mr Frost’s office.

"This is daddy’s new toy." he says.

Rosa and Mr Frost unpack the boxes and take out a very modern

computer.

The children watch them connect the monitor, keyboard and mouse to the

computer base. Finally, Mr Frost plugs the machine in and presses the

ON / OFF button.

"This computer is very easy to use!" Rosa tells him. "All the software

is already on the hard disk."

Mr Frost bought his old computer many years ago. He does not have

Rosa’s confidence in new technology.

"All the new software is already there," he says, "but all my work is

on these large floppy disks."

The old disks are too large for the new computer, but Rosa has the

answer to every problem.

"Why don’t you buy a small external disk drive for your old computer!"

she suggests. "Then you’ll be able to save all your data on small modern

disks and you’ll have two compatible computers!"

The two children enjoy the paint program on the new machine and fill the

screen with colour. But they are not interested in their daddy’s technical

problems. Mr Frost is very impatient. He cannot wait to transfer his

customer database and translation programs onto the super new machine.

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