Here's my contribution. I must confess to not having read all the previous ones - traffic on the list has been somewhat high and my boss has been making noises about my spending so much time reading it :-( I suppose I'll have to get TCP/IP on my IBM 6150 ... My name is Philip Belben and I'm an electrical engineer by trade. I work for PowerGen, one of the electricity generating companies formed when the UK split up its electricity industry in 1990. I'm 30 years old (31 next week) and still single. I live alone in a 3-bedroom house full of computers and other electronic junk, located at Coalville, England. My introduction to computers was when my school got a Commodore PET in 1979. Suitable pestering of my parents meant that I received a secondhand, 8K PET for my 13th birthday in 1980. I then caught the computing bug - I forced the school to let me take exams in computer science even though they had no-one to teach it. After leaving school at 18 I did a year with IBM (Marketing - UGH!) before going to university. At university in 1987 I met Tony Duell, who had just founded the P850 User Group to preserve old computers. I caught the collecting bug at about that time, and I now have around 60 of the things. Old computers is just one hobby among many, though. I also write music; I play the organ at my local church (yes I am a Christian), and also sing and play Piano and Bassoon; I have recently taken up photography. I would add that my computers aren't the only thing that's old - my camera is a Yashicaflex 635 (late 1960s?) that I bought for 6 UK pounds (just under $10) at a charity auction. My car is a 1971 Marcos Mantis - a British kit car of which about 32 were made and 14 are believed to survive - which I bought two years ago because I wanted something sportier than my 1965 Ford Anglia (I shall always regret getting rid of the Anglia). I also have a 1948 Fordson (= UK brand name for Ford commercial vehicles until 1950s) truck, useful for carting computers around. When I get the truck back on the road, I intend to join the Classic Computer Rescue Squad. Since this is not strictly on topic, I'd better not say any more! Philip.