You sound like someone who burns paintings just because you don't have space to store them, regardless from being priceless Picasso's... It's not very hard to understand the following facts: - the majority of this list subscribers are collectors, which means that they like collecting certain stuff. - everyone understands the difference between "storing" and "collecting". It's impossible to prevent all minis from the planet are available to save a necessarily small percentage from destruction, by collecting them. They do this because they *love* it. - the average storage capacity of collectors is usually not very high. Not everyone is able to own a VAX, and those who are, can't hold more than 1-2 of such machines. Now compare this storage capacity with the rate you get minis (you said about 40-50 a year). - you can't expect to come here saying "I crush 40 minis a year" without people becoming upset. I guess it breaks the heart of every collector (at least it breaks mine...). Cheers, -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and MSc Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585