someone email in and say they are trying to get old hardware running. There is no reason (other than personal) to restrict the list to topics as long as they do not include windows, PCs, DOS, or LINUX. It can be quite a challenge to get an old pc running as is ANY S100 based system. I have done both and I am quite willing to help anyone try and resolve issues on any machine I have experience with. Hi It is just that it would be a shame to turn this into a "Fix My PC" group. There was an active news group that that happened to. They changed the name of the group but it never recovered. All the people the new how to fix PC left and now just about all one sees are single letters asking for help in the old group. I think that rather than a 10 year limit, we might consider a specific date. For those that want to deal with newer machines, they can spawn a new side group. Similar to the tech group. I don't want to shut out the newer stuff but then, I also don't want to see this group loose its focus. Dwight