<function for a given piece of hardware. Someone dumped a 286 & 12" green <mono monitor at our store a few years back. Instead of throwing it out, I <spent a couple of afternoons patching together some C code, a few batch <files, and some other odds & ends and it's served us well as our cash <register ever since. It also cranks out our monthly state sales tax report <and maintains our customer database. 52 MB hard drive, 24 MB free -- I <imagine we'll be using it every day for years to come. Therein lies the appeal of many old machines to me. I can use them as single point applications as they were cheap and do it well. The up side is some are really interesting! <Cost: $0. Call me Yankee but, it's a frugal thing. <I even have a couple of business apps (Tony Duell, don't gag ;>) which I ru <on my Sinclair machines . . . just crank up the old imagination, Jim, and <surely you'll come up with some good use for that old "clunker." Oh, I forgot one. There's a program called "checks" that can be found on the WC CDrom and the OAK.oakland.edu archives. Runs nicely on the kaypro. Theres a lot of messydos and CPM software out there in the archives waiting to be used. Allison