I have an Intel MDS that needs special care. As you may have heard, I was in a car accident at the beginning of last month. The main casualty, except for the car, was an Intel MDS. I offered it to the Computer History Museum and was turned down because they don't have anyone who understands the MDS well enough to attempt to restore it. Please take a look at photos of the machine[1]. I can't really let this go for free because I promised its owner that I would sell it, so please offer something decent. Except for the lid of one chip getting knocked off, the boards all appear to be intact. The CRT is not cracked and there's no apparent evidence of it being breached. If the floppy drive is bad, I have some replacements. The chassis however, is in sorry condition. It's made of a foamy sort of polymer similar to the stuff used in older Sun workstations. The impact of the crash cleaved the chassis into two pieces: the top containing the CRT and floppy drive and the bottom holding the backplane and cards. No keyboard was present to begin with. This owner is the same one who had the Nova 4 I offered here in September. [1] http://frotz.homeunix.org/mds-damage.jpg -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?