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>>Hey, are you a member of the club of those of us who used a slide rule in high school and college? <g> Well, I have to admit I owned one at one time, but mainly because my dad used one, and I wanted to be like him. And before I got really good at using it Voila! –here is a calculator that does it all instantly, so I never got good at using it. I think I got thru college with a TI30 or something similar with ugly red digital display, but I really wanted a Hewlett Packard with "reverse Polish notation" and at the time they were (in my budget) way too expensive..something like over $300 if memory serves. >>got two dogs Me too! Great watch dogs at that. I am kindof lucky. >>I'm not so much worried about losing the equipment as I am my archive of 3DS work and all that time spent configuring everything! Ditto. In fact, since I do 3D only part time, I think a higher percentage of my time is spent figuring out things like the Targa board installation instructions have the output plug reversed (thus making TV Framebuffer display impossible) or esoteric error messages that MAY come from Pharlap, OR Dos, Or 3dS, Or AniPro…things like "write error, disk f" . But You may wish to consider BACKUP somewhere ELSE (I am looking forward to the JAZZ.) I suppose 8mm tape drive would be ideal, but haven't settled on which one. (I have mere Colorado backup and actually put project files on Syquest). So this was one of my main UNEASINESS-causers since I thought I had just about got the swing of the 3DS rhythm, and now they want me to switch hardware, move to Windows NT (I HATE Windows problems, love the 3.1 interface, just never want to deal with Autodesk type problems with it.) For someone who is working only part time, this means DOWNTIME! But if I don't move now, it will cost twice as much ($995 vs. $495) so there you have it. I am going to stick it out with R4 for a while and build up hardware. And if [>> Continued in next msg]