I Just happenned to be looking in the latest flyer from my local PC shop and noted that prices for HW have fallen quite a bit from a year ago. Last Year Today 16 Meg 72pin EDO RAM 60-80$ 24-32$ 1.2 EIDE Drive $170 $110 166Mhz Pentium + MB $350 $250 Win95 $89 $95 Conclusions are left as an exercise for the reader. Mark Hinds