For nickedshield ... >> Gee, no one remembers the Heathkit H-8, 8mhz processor with a max of 16kb memory? Not quite that far back, but close. It was the H-89 that my hubby built in 1983-ish (if I'm remembering the year right). Yup, whopping 64K of RAM and initially you could only back up programs by cassette tape. Eventually got a 8" 130-K floppy drive, though, which I now recall cost a bundle. About the only thing I could do on it was play text adventures and research my family history. I begged him and begged him for a "real" computer for ages ... when we split in 1990 it was the first thing I bought for myself. Now my current hubby and I have wars over who is going to die with the most software. 8-) Oh yeah ... I guess I'm not quite older than dirt ... I'm 51 and loving it.