My first computer was a Amiga2000 which could multitask, but you still had to boot every time from floppy. When I got it I was in heaven 'cos when I was at school the teachers said personal computing would never happen 'cos a computer took up and entire office block. 8P I also had one of those things you plugged into the Tv, it ran from cassette tapes and was oh,so,slow, it played that stupid table tennis thing and not much else. As for history I was pretty good when it came to exams but was almost frozen rigid in the class by boredom, so I'd go to the library to educate myself. I didn't tell any of my class mates that's what I was doing 'cos that would have made me a swat and at my school swats got a beating. 8) That was so good finally telling how I got good grades. 8D Catlin