Dear Air'ers - The NY Times did a story on computer orphans, it was decades ago (maybe in 1988-89). So what I recall is highly sus (Australian for suspect). I think the computer orphans were people who had systems that still ran, but no one else could receive or send those files. A computer orphan usually owned a CP/M computer or an Amiga, although we did have the most unfortunate PCjr around for awhile . . . . Failed media reminds me a bit of a chemist at UW-Madison who brought me a file written in Volkswriter Scientific. And of course, an ASCII-export will export the text but make garbage of the scientific notation . . . . and no one had a copy of the software that was still running. He had acidentally re-formatted the last working copy of the software on disk and then his hard disk crashed. I vaguely remember we turned it into postscript and printed it from PageMaker? Ahh the good old days. Cheers, Denise ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of Env. Science, Southern Cross Uni, Marker for Protected/Natural Area Management, BIO00244 Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Thursdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com