On Jan 28 2005, 10:47, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote: or just work? Count me in. The machine I use most at home is the SGI Indy I bought ten years ago. The machine I use most at work is either one of a pair of SGI O2s on my desk, bought a few years later. The Indy has been expanded quite a lot, and now handles various services for family and friends as well as personal use; I use it because it's "nicer" than the Pentium which is sitting next to it running XP (which crashed and died horribly yesterday, for the second time in three months. Not bad for a machine that gets used a few times a week, and has little more than the OS+Word+Firefox loaded on it). It's also considerably easier for me to get/write most of the software I want on a real Unix box than on a Windows one. Also easier to do proper backups (ie ones that can actually be used to recover the system or parts thereof). Of course, the PC at home and a similar one at work get used for Word documents that some people send me, some web pages that older browsers on the SGI don't handle well, or that newer browsers on the SGI handle only slowly, so they're the second-most used machines, I suppose. The third-most used (discounting other SGIs I have) would probably be my Acorn Archimedes, vintage 1987, one careful owner from new, and still with a better GUI than Microsoft's. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York