<I might as well get the ball rolling with an introduction of sorts. Oh why not. I'm older at 45 so, that means I have hands on time with new PDP-8Is and KA/I/L-10s. I was in EEschool when the 8008 hit and I was already working (to pay for school) with it soon after it was available at work. I've done design with everything from DC to 1ghz RF analog and even a fair amount of digital from transistors to asics. Likely one of the few that's designed with tubes, transistors and ICs. Former companies I've worked for Automated processes(maglink SMPTE timecodes), Tandy(trs80), NEC(chips), Hazeltine(terminals), DEC(printing systems) and a few more inbetween. Far as I can tell one of the few active women in legacy(old machines are us) computing. For me thse old system were the computer I couldn't afford when I was playing with them new. My collections includes: 4 operational s100 machines Vector MX (vector box computime boards) Northstar* horizon (actively used has HD) Explorer-85 S-S100 (my design z80 supersystem) (active and archive system, big HD) 3 Vt180s (in use) 1 kaypro (in use) 1 Epson PX-8 with 120k wedge (my laptop) 1 amproLB+ with 45mb scsi drive (used often) 1 SB180 with SCSI adaptor and 20meg HD(also used frequently) 1 DECMATE-III runs OS/278 VAXEN: All operational ant netted via decnet/eithernet 1 MV-II ba23 1 MV-II ba123 3 VS2000 2 vms and one ultrix 1 Vaxstation3100-m76 VMS PDP-11 systems: all operatonal 1 ba11n 11/23b (rx50) 1 ba11n 11/73 (rx33, rd52, RX02, RL02, TK50) 2 BA11va 11/23 (shoebox system with tu58 tape) 1 PDT11/130 1 Pro350 with venix Misc SBCs: operational IMSAI IMP-48 (8035 based SBC) COSMAC ELF (base design) national SC/MP Demo board National TBX tinybasic chip on a board Technico superstarter sytem (TI9900) Misc 8085 boards used for random uses. NEC TK-80 8080 system DEC ADVICE microvax-II chip based sbc/ice Intersil 6960 demo kit (pdp-8 cmos chip (6100) to make a minimal system) Misc machines: INTEL MDS-800 multibus 8080 TI99/4a with PEB, disk, mem exp, voice, disk software and 20+ carts. Altair (retired) PCs: Leading Edge mod D (XT class) running dos DTC turboXT slated for minix (running dos) 386dx/33 running linux 486dx2/50 running dos (this system) My wish list includes: more SBCs (mostly because they are fun and small) PDP-8/e/f/m series (always wanted one since '69) any pdp-10 ( I can wish!) Intersil/harris 6100/6120 based systems Allison