< One thing I'm a bit surprised by is the speed of the video being much < faster than I'd imagined it would be. Now to get some software to run Why? DEC would and did do things to keep it from being a turkey. The Video is not a simple bit map and there is a drawing engine in there. Also VAX instruction set is fairly efficient doing bit manipulations. < on it; I've found some stuff already, but can someone point me at some < share/freeware software to run under DecWindows (besides the DECUS < archives)? In particular, I remember using an ephemeris program in schoo < that I could swear was freely distributed. Check, there was a fairly good flight sim and other stuff as well. < Does the DECUS hobbyist license cover all versions of VMS/DECWindows? V5.4 through 6.1. It may work with earlier. < I'm running 5.2 on this machine; would upgrading to 6.1 noticeably degra < performance? Would additional features balance out any slowdowns? Beside < new features, my entire manual set is for 6.1... Having manuals is a good reason to be at that level. being at 6.1 may slow it a tiny bit but it's worth it. The other end is for 6.1 I'd call a 200mb scsi the minimum acceptable where 5.1 you can get by with 121mb. However a 400mb-1gb small scsi should not be hard to find cheap. Allison