At 01:28 PM 1/8/98 -0500, you wrote: a lot of local programs certainly have *need* for them, but they would probably see more *use* overseas. The problem with older (and certainly very viable and useful) equipment in this country is getting it into operation, maintaining it, and putting it to work with software other than what one buys at CompUSA. I'd be happy to discuss this further (I am somewhat involved in this sort of thing myself) but I think it best kept to private e-mail (or the various newsgroups/mailing lists about the subject.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/