rj001, I can relate to that too. I also feel rather nostalgic when I see a tv show about jets and they put a clipping of the camera panning around a room showing rows after rows of drafting tables. What I really miss are the well lighted rooms, instead of darken CAD rooms that seem to be popular now.

I don't know too much about the MS monopoly people keep talking about. I mean, at home I'm using both Windows and Linux. During my college years, seems like everyone I knew was into UNIX, BSD, Linux, and even BeOS when Apple was having OS troubles. I started down the Linux route for a while until I got better with Windows programming. But I mean, there was always the choice for me. Even now that I'm in my "office"... a coffee shop (I telecommute)... there's a few Dell laptops here (most likely Windows) and several Mac's. When the high school kids come in, there's at least one using Linux.