And madams - at least two of the stellar lights on this group appear to be female. There's a certain amount of disagreement on whether PCs are classic or not. One camp says that any computer over 10 years old qualifies, another will say that since the PC archetecture is at the core of modern PCs that it doesn't. Personally I say welcome to the group. My collection includes a DOS machine - Amstrad ppc 640 portable. It's a little beat up, but it works, and it's a delight to see some of my old dos software that was just too good to throw out when I cut over to windows run and be useful again. (Example - and it's for sure classic software - Norton Textra Writer. I bought this on a pair of 360k floppies from the campus bookstore when I was an undergrad. It was far slicker than any other DOS word processor I'd ever used and for 26 dollars it was cheaper than most of my books. WordPerfect has more features and Textra writer shows its age by blowing up if you let it try and compute the blocks free on a disk bigger than 512 megs (but you can switch that off) but it's an awfully nice little word processor and the whole shebang fits on one 720k floppy, including the dictionary. That's the only PC in my collection though. I'm mostly interested in Vaxen and (formerly) 8 and 16 bit apples. I have a Commodore 64 in my collection only because a friend was throwing it out and I used to have one, and I have a Kaypro 4/84 I acquired just for something different. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------