Marvellous ! You know that I had asked about the on-goings of the "project", and I was glad that James repeated the question - triggering your highly appreciated respnse.
No problem with cleaning the cut/pasted salad but some content questions raise. Though I gladly wait for the FAQ. I think the primary orietation you mentioned - re-activating existing HW/SW in an adapted context - is precisely what's needed. BTW, one seldom mentioned but crucial aspect in this is access to archives of all sorts. Blatant example: with the usual equipment installed to-day, you cannot access any more official (DOS-).PDF documents stored at the time by many gvt. and public instances (in wide parts of Western Europe); "paper trails" are difficult to find and incomplete, and "there is a 10-years' gap in public memory", according to historians and librarians, caused by arbitrary changes in proprietary document formatting. The stuff is still there, available but not accessible. -hc
