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AFAIK I've not 'basehd Windows' here, at least not recently. I will happily admit that _I_ don't like Microsoft Windows. I prefer a unix-like OS, and for various reasons, I run linux. I can assure you I did consider various OSes before making that decision, I didn't just decide to not-run-Windows because all my friends don't run it either. Hoewever, I am prepared to accept that for some people, Windows might be the right choice. Anyway, this is a totally stupid argument. If I did decide to run a more modern PC with a grapgical display I can assure you I'd not run any OS for which I didn't have the source code. I may not be much of a programmer, but I am capable of reading source code and patching things. It isn't. I am just not prepared to accept (and never will be) that the 'new' is always better than the 'old'. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I prefer to look at all the available solutions and pick the one which I consider to be the best. Maybe a new idea, maybe something that's been around for decades. If it solves the problem, then it's good. The whole point about ASCII files is that there are many tools to deal with them. The available tools for other file types are nowhere near as versatile (yet) as far as I've seen. Many times a web page I've wanted has either been removed, been replaced (with something that doesn't contain the bit of information I want) or moved somewhere. I would never depend on information remaining on the web. I don't have $30 a month spare.... My time is not worth anything. Nobody pays me for my time anyhow. \pounds 10.00 a month. Not over here you don't (and skip-diving (dumpster diving) is actuallly illegal here I think). I don't have any local friends who are into computing, I don't get offered old machines. At all. I've got an old version of lynx that gets me to the couple of (text-based) sites I really need. For anything else I pop to an internet cafe. That's normally when I need a pinout for some obscure chip that's not in the 100-or-so databooks I have here. But I must say I am not at all impressed with much of the stuff I find on the web. I was looking at some scanned camera service info the other day (yes, I tinker with classic cameras too). All I can say is that I found them to be unreadable (even when I zoomed in, this doesn't seem to be a PC display probkem). And I've had the same problem with schematics, etc, on the web. If I did get one, I'd have to keep it running. Most of them now seem to have BGA-packaged chips in them, presumably I need a fancy re-work station to repalce them. Even if you convinced me to swap the entire board, I'd still need a rather better logic analyser (and probably 'scope) than I already have to find out which board is faulty. Better make it 2 LA's and 'scopes so I can use one to fix the other. Now this is going to get very expensive. (And no, I don't know anywhere where I can borrow them from). You will _never_ convince me to swap boards at random until the machine seems to work again. I've tried that a couple of times, and lived to regret it! I picked up a Focomat 1 for \pounds 10.00 (!). It needed a few minor repairs, but it's not exactly complicated. I don't use it, though, it's 35mm only. I use a DeVere 504 (sub-miniature right up to 5*4" sheet film). Lovely piece of engineering, the only electronics is the timer (based ona a 555) and the stabiliser for the Dichromat colour head (which is an op-amp + saturable reactors). I understand how all that works... To bring this back sort-of on-topic, one day I am going to make a modifed version of the enlarger exposure meter that's in 'Control the World with HPIL', and which uses an HP41CX + GPIO interface. Modified to use an ADC I can easily get now, and to plug into the 8-pin socket on the DeVere stabiliser box. -tony