On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:12 -0600, Jay West wrote: Oh, tell me about it. Personally, I kick myself every day because I didn't pick up that amazingly cool (and working) A4 (letter-ish for you statesians) HP carousel plotter. Instead I picked up a Tandon 286 computer my father dropped... It had two removable disks, though! I wrote a BASIC program in something like 5th grade that would write perfect handwriting using a series of plotpixel functions... oh, how I wish I had the printer then, would save me the horror of writing my schoolwork in the handwriting I oh-so-hated... Still, watching a plotter at work is *fun*! :) It's just like blinkenlights or magtapes. :) I have a weakness not only for the internal workings of the machines of the era, but also the external gears and cranks (and precision stepper motors :) -- Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>