I flew to San Jose to see The Who in concert (excellent show, btw, I recommend catching them if you can) and had a few hours to kill before the show. So I went down to the CHM to check out the Visible Storage exhibit. Lots of great stuff! There is something about that distinctive smell you get when you walk into a room full of old electronics that is intoxicating! :-) I want to extend a personal thanks to Al Kossow who met me in the lobby and showed me a few 'behind the scenes' areas: his software library storage, the lab where he does restoration work on old tapes, the restoration lab where a crew is currently restoring some old equipment (IBM? SDS? I can't remember) and the big warehouse storage area where they have lots of goodies awaiting restoration and display. I got to see an Evans & Sutherland Picture System II in the flesh for the first time there :-). Definately recommended if you haven't been out there before. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>