I was really referring to the teenagers, altho it also extends into the twenties
for many.
 And I congratulate you for your good fortune.
Lawrence
  On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
   And of course the younger generation (as always)
views anything that
 isn't on the "bleeding edge" of anything, as unworthy or useless. 
 Well, not always.  I started deliberately collecting older systems when
 I was in college--around 1994.  My girlfriend, who is younger still, has
 nice start on a collection of her own; included in it are some NeXTs, a
 Mac SE, a Televideo terminal, and an Apple IIc.  She even spent one
 summer aiding in the cleaning of the Memory Test Computer from Project
 Whirlwind at the MIT Museum:
   <http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2001/sep26/compaq.html>
 I have the best girlfriend EVER!
 -brian.