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:) Shure, exactly in Guyana. I found that the percentage of unusual computers rise linear with the 'unusuality' of the place you are looking. Of course, the total number of computers available is falling rapidly, but if there is one, the chance of not beeing a 08/15 type computer is quite high. I made up three possible reasons. First if somone in such a place buyes a computer he is a) weathy and b) educated - already unusual. Such people tend to go for rather individual choises. Second to buy a computer in this environment isn't a decision made between two hot dogs - they are collecting facts to buy the right one (like most of us did in the 70s) - ok, this attitude is fading like it did in the US and Europe during the 80s, but only recently - maybe also forced due the missing of low to mid class alternatives to the Wintel PC. Third the lifetime / time of use is a lot longer due missing replacement. Computer sales in this countries are still rising the numbers of installes systems, while we (Euro and US) have already reached a level where replacement is part of the market. If a computer is to be replaced lets say in India or Romania, the old one will be used again, istead of beeing scraped - for shure! I don't know about the far east, arab or south american situation, but in the east the PC took only over _very_ recently (1995/96...). In Russia, a C64 or an Amiga or Atari XL ist still a valuable home computer - shure, they won't get the price like a few years aga, since the Taiwan PCs give an upper limit, but people are still looking to get them. And in Africa it's almost the same (You still can find French and Britisch homecomputers). Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK