Scribed by "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>: All I know is some history: Mohawk Data Sciences did all sorts of things in the 60's and 70's. Their main "claim to fame" was a key-to-tape machine that was to replace keypunches (remember 029 keypunches) with something more "modern". They did find some place, but I never used one. On the other hand I was (un)fortunate to interface a Mohawk printer (a model 4330 to be exact) to a larger computer (A Xerox Sigma 5) and it had (still has on the case) a nice MDS logo. I suspect that Intel started using MDS as a marketing term and the lawyers from Mohawk made a nice call on the phone. Another observation: Later Xerox Sigma CPUs had a sticker (inside the control panel door) indicating that the term "Sigma" was used under license from some corporation (Sigma Relays?). They probably got a lawyer call as well. Sometimes these things take a while (years), but eventually it all works out. A recent (very bad) example was a guy called Mike Rowe (I think) who wanted to sell software on the web. He got a "nastygram" from the guys in Redmond who didn't appreciate it too much. I'm sure you can search for the end result. Note to wise: If you think you have a trademark, do a little search. It might save some real money at a later date. -- Tom Watson tsw at johana.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com