This list isn't really about modern computers. But hands down, the Macintosh would be the most modern of the bunch. Although it's not color-capable, the user interface is has is what Bill Gates stole from Apple and used to build Windows. So you'd be most at home there.

I do believe most of us had that figured out. This list isn't really about modern computers. But hands down, the Macintosh would be the most modern of the bunch. Although it's not color-capable, the user interface is has is what Bill Gates stole from Apple and used to build Windows. So you'd be most at home there. I've been a Mac advocate from the beginning, but for my own purposes, computers with operating systems that provide a text-mode shell, such as the *nixen and its derivitives, VMS, Primos, DOS, are preferable. As someone with a tiny bit of a math background, the ability you gain with a sophisticated command-line environment is great. In most of these operating systems, you can string commands togther like factors in an equation, and perform complex transformations on sets of files all at once. Hard to do that with a Graphical User Interface. To the List: Was the AT&T 3B2 still being made in '86? If so, there's a good choice for him. I even know where he could get one... -dq -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits