Don't despair yet.
I thought I'd fried & completely killed my laptop a few years ago by
spilling beer into it, but I took it to a local repair place, with a bunch
of kids running things, and they fixed it in a few days for around $80.
'Course, now I have nothing to blame my poor spelling on.......
JR
BTW, i bet with a bit of effort you could get along fine without C.
http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/index.html