Hi There is also the issue of putting together the documentation. Often times one piece of documentation or even a piece of software is really relevant to several items. Figuring what goes with what is not straight forward in all cases. Splitting these items into the smallest pieces detracts from the value of the hole group. To make things a little more difficult is that the overlap many not make nice partitioning either. It is difficult to say to what level he should split things. If he splits things into categories, like all the AppleII's in one pile, he may make the package less desirable to someone that already has most of the pieces. If he splits it down to the smallest piece, it loses value as a collection. On top of it all, he may not be physically or mentally able to handle splitting it up because of a medical condition. All that being said, it would be unlikely that he'd find a buyer for the entire lot that would compare with the individual values of the items. He needs to find a way to partition it into reasonable blocks. Dwight