Well, my flu has subsided and BigBoy, the new machine at home is up and running. Intel motherboard 256 MByte DDR ram, Celeron 1.7 GHz.A Gforce TI graphics cardwith 128 MBytes ram completes the picture. ADSL Internet and a new HPprinter forthe icing on the cake.
And yes,I do like Windows XP. 'She who must be obeyed' managed to send her first email yesterday all by herself.

Now,why was I so mean as to use a six year old keyboard with a sticky spacekey?