Lets say I have before me three things; a nifty vintage machine with some software that looks interesting, a large dumpster with a couple enticing cables hanging out, and a auction with all the people grousing the lack of late model Wintel boxes due to all the pallets of vintage computers. What do I do? I can hear the trash truck coming in the distance, the guy with the vintage machine and software is leaving as soon as he finishes a cheeseburger, and the auction starts in 5 minutes and I haven't registered yet. The answer is, I don't know what I would do, it would depend on what was really going on. The dumpster calls to me at a basic level the others can't reach, but I am a thinking being able to intellectually decide my path. Most likely I wander over and peek in the dumpster while I think about the other two choices, and how unfair the world is. ;) Back in the Wednesday night reality of my garage with no cars, most likely I split my time between testing/fixing some hardware and sorting out boxes of new stuff. I don't have much interest in running any software on less than the best platform I have to run it on.