1985,86? Atari 520ST, still have it, and thanks to John's question, anxious to put it back together and see how it's doing. My wife was still writing grad-school papers on it in '90 or so. 1st Word, no spell-check, no page numbering, not much formatting at all. The printer was a Silver Reed daisy-wheel typewriter with an optional interface box. (Still have that, too.) Clackety-clackety-clack. It paused between pages so you could switch paper. I recall with mixed fondness/not-so-fondness pulling all-night term paper sessions, the last hour or so of which consisted in sitting there, changing paper in the printer...zzzzzzzzz. At time of purchase, I was insanely jealous of my friend's Atari 1050ST with the humongous 1mb hard disk: "The silence of those infinite spaces terrified me." --Pascal. (Blaise, not Turbo.) 1996 Intercepted an IBM XT that a co-worker was tossing. Knew nothing from nothing, so never could get it to do much. Got it to find it its 10mb hard disk for exactly one format of PC-DOS, then I never saw C: again. You could still run PC-DOS and WordPerfect from the floppies when I gave it away. (Kinda wish I still had that one...) 2000 Bought a house with a BASEMENT, bwahahahaahaaaa! Have cluttered it all up with various PC clones in various states of completion/disrepair. Acquired a Mac SE, an old Zenith luggable which I haven't had time to check out yet (but I know it can't find its hard disk either), the Atari, a 90mb Bernoulli drive in its own carrying case, the Toshiba laptop mentioned elsewhere on this list. You guys have got years and years on me and have forgotten more than I'll ever know, but I really enjoy this list and learning about rescuing junkware. Thanks! ============================== Mark Price, Library Computer Specialist Washington County Cooperative Library Services e-mail: markp(a)wccls.lib.or.us voice: 503-846-3230 fax: 503-846-3220