I have to wonder how on a thread like this you count systems such as this. I'm guessing you purchased that system for real work, and not to play, sort of like the pair of XP1000's I purchased a few months ago for running OpenVMS on. Though I waited long enough I was able to pick them up for about $200 each, and just the cards in one of them was worth more than that. Storage space is where this hobby can really get you in the long run. I've spent more on storing the junk than I have on the junk itself. Still most of my stuff is slowly going to the History Resource Center I'm involved in. So far this year I've donated over 700 computer books (that doesn't count all the magazines), and we haven't started to figure out how to handle all the comptuer hardware that will eventually be donated. Of course then there are my other hobbies, it's hard to say which one has cost me more over the years. Worse, I've yet to find a hobby which doesn't become a storage problem after a while :^( Even if the core of the hobby isn't a storage problem, the things associated with it tend to become one. Zane