Well, apart from myself there seem to be a few others who go way back. I started with Jaws in the fall of 1989, so pretty much exactly 21 years ago. That was, of course, with DOS version 3.something, not too much later DOS 4 came out. Jaws version I think was 1.1 for DOS, the entire program fit on a single Floppy disc if I remember correctly and at the time I was a student at the University of Western Ontario and my computer was actually one of the more advanced ones among my fellow students. I had a desktop machine, but in those days few of them were towers, most were flat like a piece of stereo equipment. It was a 386 16 Mhz processor with 1 Megabyte of RAM (that actually meant 640 Kb) and my hard drive was 70 Mb, yes that is Megabytes as in 1000 Megabytes making up 1 Gigabyte, so 40000 of my hard drives would have had the capacity of somebody's 40 Gb dirve I read about on the last post with that 233 Mhz machine, mine had 16 Mhz back then. So, yes, this technology has made unbelievable leaps and I think sometimes we all need to sit back and consider how fortunate we are as people with various visual disabilities to have such access to information and such a wide variety of ways to communicate with friends, family and for business. I am originally from Germany and I remember that in the mid to late 80s when I was still living in Germany it cost about $3 for a minute of long distance calling to Canada. So, a half hour talk would have cost close to $100. When I renewed my last Skype World Subscription it cost me $130 for an entire year of calling Germany and 40 other countries if I so wish more or less as much as I want. So, enjoy the gift of technology and make the most of it. Regards, Sieghard