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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote something like: I have a lot of respect for people who preserve minis and mainframes. Workstations (Sun's in particular) and 70s and 80's micros are what grab me since they are what I have used most. I would prefer to collect workstations[1], Unix boxen, and machines which I have used in the past. But, fate seems to want me to collect portable (or in most cases schlepable) CP/M machines. Is this a generational thing? My first computer exposure what to a mainframe in the late 70's, but my first computer was an 80's micro. Are people in the 40+ age group more likely to have fond memories of minis? I may not be an "old fart", but seening today's kids, sometimes I feel like one. (Nintendo?, why in my day we had to type in our games on membrane keyboards. It took hours to type them in. We stored programs on cassette tape, and we liked it...) [1] There are a good number of Sun 3's around. Unfortunately they seem to always be just the cpu. If anyone in the silicon valley area (or anywhere near there) would like to trade an old Sun for an Atari 1040ST with about 40lbs of accessories, let me know. --pec -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Old fart in training.