Reading these posts reminds me of all those young blokes spending all their spare moments taking their cars apart, adjusting some extraordinarily arcane bit and then putting it all back together for a burn 'round the block. And then doing it all again. You're all wonderfully dextrous (and friends regard me as a MacVolvo driver) but I tried to leave all this stuff behind me when I got out of writing Fortran and (later) fiddling with CP/M. And yes, I did notice a recent reference on another thread to CP/M by John and Jon. The nostalgia almost made me weep. I'm not criticising, but marvelling. And I know where to come for such info when I need it!

John
In a much earlier post in this thread above you differentiated between CRT screens and flat screens. When I made the same differentiation to my local IT techie just before the weekend he upbraided me and said that several people who ordered a "flat screen" were most dienchanted to find they had a thumping great (but "flat") CRT screen, instead of the desired LCD screen.

I thought you'd be one to appreciate such distinctions.

Cheers, Rowan