AMEN, brother !! I find so many people rationalizing their fear of computers by saying they'll get one when they can save up enough to afford the latest gee-whiz whiz-bang model. Of course the marketeers play the tune that only the newest are capable of the marvels of "modern" computing and games, as displayed on TV about the marvellous wonders of the "computer age". I am a bit of a computer evangelist up here in the boonies of western Canada. The depopulation of the prairies by agribusiness and the death of the family farm has resulted in the children going to work in the cities and the older folk staying behind . So the dying towns have a disproportionate number of seniors. Computers could make their lives easier but they're a hard sell. I read an an article that claimed the major computer companies in the 80s, finding that the main opposition to change came from senior managers, targeted their advertising(propaganda) at the younger market. As a result there is likely a bigger generational gap than that between "rockand roll" and "swing". And of course the younger generation (as always) views anything that isn't on the "bleeding edge" of anything, as unworthy or useless. Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com

And in my case, I used my Commodore 64 as my only word processor right up until I graduated high school in '93. My parents finally got their first PC around that time. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. -------

I was really referring to the teenagers, altho it also extends into the twenties for many. And I congratulate you for your good fortune. Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com