Just another "Old Fart" checking in. I started out on an IBM 360 running Fortran, Cobol and RPG. Programs were coded on punch cards. Then the Community College acquired a DG Nova 1200 running BASIC using a Teletype ASR-33 with paper tape reader/punch (I still own an ASR-33). My first job was working on DG Nova 1200s and PDP-8's both loading from high speed paper tape readers and Glass Teletypes AKA Dumb Terminals. The 8080 and Z80 were on the market and people were building IMSI and Altair S-100 bus systems some of which ran CP/M and 5 1/4 inch hard sectored floppies that held a whopping 128kb. The Apple I and II soon followed. I then started to work on PDP-11 series systems running RT-11, RTSE, VAX-VMS. The IBM PC hit the market in the early 80's and we thought we were seeing the ultimate computer system with an 4.77mhz 8088 processor, 640kb ram, 360k floppy and a 5mb hard drive and able to run Lotus 123 spreadsheet software in less than 128k of ram. Things have certainly changed in 20 years. Now nothing less that a 2ghz processor will do along with 500mb ram and 60gb hard drives and the darn thing is still not fast enough!