Frankly I don't get what this whole fuss is about from either side of the argument. On the one hand, yes, classic hardware is finite and the more people who want it, the higher prices get. But that's the same for ANY vintage item. From baseball cards to Corvettes to classic computers, scaricty is the main driver of pricing for anything that can be collected. But there's also another advantage to people being into classic hardware: greater interest creates more preservation. Unlike, say baseball cards or classic cars, the perceived value of older computers is quite low, except among the dedicated enthusiast community. By expanding the number of people interested in old hardware, the number of old computers picked from the curb at trash day or successfully sold at a yard sale goes up. While this obviously does little to save mainframes and minis, whose owners are usually large corportae and educational institutions that, by and large, have been moving to a common policy where selling hardware for scrap if possible and destroying it before disposal if not are preferable to giving stuff away or even SELLING it to hobbyists, increased interest and awareness in classic hardware can, and probably does, save classic 8 and 16-bit micros from the scrappers all the time. Part two of my rant, about why emulation is also good will have to wait as my shift is over and I need to get home :) Mike