Which way to go, from now on?

Coding ... Getting a development environment setup for a machine can be fairly intensive. Especially if the machine had a few vendors that provided environments. Once you are setup, nothing teaches you more about the machine than trying to wring something useful out of it. ;-0 My favorite example .. the TCP/IP stack that I wrote for DOS. It is part of a long process to put a BBS on my PCjr. I missed the opportunity 20 years ago to have a dialup BBS, so I'm making up for it with a multi-user Telnet BBS. Getting the development environment setup, writing code that works and is stable, and wringing the performance out of it has put me a lot closer to the machine that just powering it on once in a while. Given your collection, you could spend a few lifetimes doing software. Mike