> To be fair, if you are lucky enough to qualify for Verizon FIOS, you > won't ever want to use a modem. 30mb/s downstream to the house... And presumably once you get a new surround-sound system you'll never want to listen to a vlaved radio again. Once you get a modern Pentium (or whatever) PC, you'll never want to use an 8 bit micro, or a PDP11, or... again. -tony