Found while scouring Usenet for something totally unrelated: "Well, you never know what someone might be doing with old, but usable, hardware. I have heard that there is a major bank in Great Britain that keeps an IBM 360 running because its 1401 emulator emulates a 704 (as did the original 1401) for a program whose Autocoder source was lost long ago. Also, don't underestimate the geek factor. Was AlphaLISP ever ported to Alpha Micro's 680x0 line? "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again." -- TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz" in a Marin County newspaper," Posted 2002-04-03 by one Michael Roach. Apocryphal? Who knows. Might be worth following up one... -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]