In 1988, and coming back to the office after building a garbage burning plant in Maine, the powers above sat me down in front of a Digital dumb terminal and said that I should now start designing turbine modifications and uprates. Two years later they plunked an IBM 286 in front of me a told me to do the same thing, but now we are Intranetted. From there - newer, bigger, faster, (more fragile units) were plunked down for me to work on - then I cashed in my chips and retired.

My first home unit was a real POS that died very quickly. The next was a home built with some help from a friend. Two or three Dell's later, I'm back to a pretty nice homebuilt - finished a couple of months ago. There is another ~165 post thread somewhere(Need a New Computer) here that describes my angst and some help from friends here coping with my new build. And again, would like to thank them for their help.