Ha! Actually, along those lines, I have an SGI with a Galileo board, which I've considered plugging my Atari 600XL/Commodore 128/Amiga/Atari ST/Apple IIGS, etc, into. It would be a great computing experience on a 21" monitor. :) The problem is that the SGI is a bit too sensitive for most composite video devices up to and including the Nintendo-64. They "flicker," I assume because of a slightly slow refresh rate. I've thought about writing some software that "simulates" the slower fade-out of a television CRT in a quick, dirty manner -- by simply dropping alternate frames, or the like. Anyway, back on the subject, don't get me started on idiots who don't know a serial-port from a hole in their head, and who couldn't tell an operating system from a microsoft product. ;) (To whit: I worked at one point with a guy who was convinced that every operating system in the world was derived in some manner from MS-DOS. Yes, that includes the Macintosh operating system too. "CP/M? What's that? Unix is based on MS-DOS, right?" The guy was a "programmer.") Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '