On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 22:03, William Donzelli wrote: The bad thing is, for a lot of my stuff I don't remember as it was too long ago. These days I keep hold of relevant emails, and tend to note down who I got what from and when. Back in the day I never thought I might one day want to know who I got item x from, and storage space was too precious to justify keeping email archives. (unfortunately I'm not one of those people who compulsively prints out important electronic data :) All of mine I think :-) My NCR Tower was a development machine for XVT Software and so has some interesting bits and pieces on it, but in the big scheme of things that's about as good as it gets :-) For a lot of the systems I just don't know what they may have been used for - and of course the older the system the less likely it is to have a hard disk inside, and the more likely it is that any floppies which may have once been used with it have become separated, reformatted, or thrown out by previous owner(s). So unless the person who passed it on to me was the original owner and told me any stories about it, there's just no way of knowing. cheers, J.