Speaking from the shadows of youthful ignorance (sure I owned a VW bus, bit it was made the same year I was born), I think people bought the Adam for the same reason that they bought the VW: price. Regardless of how it looked, it was a *car* that could be driven on the *highway*! For next to nothing! At least, that's why people in my family bought them. The first-available Adams may have been no real bargain, but subsequent years brought the price down to where you could practically trade a couple of llama skins for one. It was the Christmas that they went under $400 for the whole system that a bunch of my friends got them...and the same Christmas that my parents took out a second mortgage (well, practically) to buy me an Atari system. Believe me, every time the price came down on the Adam I had to tell them again that I'd rather not have a computer at all than have an Adam. Flash idea: it seems that nostalgia seems to be a way for people to "fix" their past mistakes, by reliving their most embarrassing moments with the blinders of experience and knowledge. Since most people consider anything of that era "non-useful", they can safely remember the Adam as that great old computer they bought for next-to-nothing without having to face the reality that it was actually a real hunk of shit. Anyone? Aaron On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jim wrote: