On 01/10/2011 07:41 AM, Jim wrote: > I have been around since the Microcomputer came into being. and you had > to build your own hardware. *Shrug!* And I started out using an IBM 029 keypunch to put machine language programs on punched cards for an IBM 1620 mini-computer with 20,000 individually addressable BCD digits back in 1968. So?