My personality is that of an introvert, so I tend to lurk here and "in the real world" too (I'm the quiet one in company meetings). I think I last posted on this list a couple of years ago (until today anyway). For the record, since I didn't respond to the previously mentioned age survey...I'm 42, married, got my B.Sc. in Computer Science in the 1980s, and I have a collection of VAX and PDP-11 systems in my basement that I power up regularily, and a random bunch of Radio-Shack, Commodore, and early IBM-Compatibles that I power up a few times a year, as well as a SIMH HP2000F system that I love to tinker with since it was the first system that I ever worked on back in the 1970s. (I'd love to have a "real" HP2000F, but I think my wife would object to any more stuff in the basement... SIMH & TS10 are a big help there) ...and I'm currently on a Mac mini running OSX 10.4 telnetted into a SUN system and using PINE to email this to the list! Thomas Dzubin Calgary, Saskatoon, or Vancouver CANADA