In a message dated 19/01/2014 10:49:43 GMT Standard Time, ovington.one@gmail.com writes: Back in the mid 1980's I paid 400gpb for an Amiga 500, thats more that I paid for this laptop (and money was worth a lot more then) Nivard That brings back memories of paying GBP1,200 for a 486 with a 40Mb hard drive in the days when 486's were state of the art - maybe about 1993 ? And I was assured by a friend that I had wasted my money on a 40Mb, as nobody would ever need that much hard disk space. His 20Mb was perfectly adequate ! At the same time, I also paid the best part of GBP200 for a new-fangled monochrome printer - a Canon BubbleJet BJ10SX, if I remember rightly. What frightens me is comparing a 40Mb hard drive with the memory in a mid-range smartphone of today. Best wishes. Paul