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I'm waiting to see if they follow historical precedents and collect money for a year or so before shipping anything... I'm also waiting to see what operating system it will run, when and which languages will be available, and exactly how much has to be added to make a usable system. I seem to recall when I read it yesterday, that it only comes with a pathetic amount of ram.. It would be nice if it could at least run cp/m, have Basic, FORTRAN, and Pascal available, and have a usable bitmap graphics display. I'm also waiting to see how the floppy and hard drive interfaces work out. This sure seems to cost a lot for a box with no floppy or hard drive interfaces as standard, no operating system or programing languages as standard, etc, etc. I admit that I am intrigued by the possibilities though. If i could buy a new paper tape reader/punch for it, i could overlook much of this... I guess what I'm really saying is, I'm waiting to see how nostalgic the computer will be, versis how modernistic it will be... -Lawrence LeMay