Too right, I still remember the day I wandered past Currys in Banbury and saw they'd repriced QL's at ?199! Wandered home in a fret thinking "can I afford it?"... agonised over it for a week or so then bought it anyway :-) Best box I ever bought - within a week or so I had the Lattice assembler and a copy of the Technical Manual and was digging around QDOS, and soon after that I'd got a 3.5" disk drive (whoa, a whole "1440 sectors" on one disk!) and a C compiler. That was it, my metamorphosis into a complete "dalek" was complete :-) Al.