Nostalgia is great for aging baby-boomers as me. Back in 1978 I along with a friend bought a Heathkit H1 and spent many leisure hours constructing it and getting it to boot up! By 1984 I moved on to the Coleco ADAM and learned BASIC(Well more accurately APPLE Basic) spending too much time on it rather than on my PhD studies. Trying to write my dissertation using Writer was a challenge as was getting it to print on the included daisy-wheel printer ? all that clacking. Noise! Noise! as the Grinch says. But I did get my doctorate but had to go to S. Korea and Univ. of Education(TESOL program) to use it. Microsoft?s monopoly began in the earliest days of microcomputing. Read Gate?s letter to programmers /hobbyists to see how a monopolist thinks. Linux has come along and poked Microsoft in the eye but hasn?t done too much damage according to this writer. As written here a nostalgia for the early years may be what we classic computer-philes find so compelling in cctalk. And to be honest I?ll move to WIN 11 because the choice(s) are somewhat limited. Happy computing. Murray ?