Univac 1100 series as I recall. 1975. It resided behind the glass wall in the room with all the scary signs about the dangers of the fire extinguisher's gases, the raised floor, the many cabinets of electronics, whirring tape drives and spaceship-looking disk packs. Watching the white-coated priests of technology tend to their ablutions. Whoa. I sat down as a 13 yr old in front of a teletype in a windowless University computer lab full of these clattering beasts. Deafening. No stinkin' punch cards here, this baby was interactive! (You could go the paper-tape route if needed though....) My older brother showed me how to run the BASIC tutorial. TUT01. That was it-I was done in. I surfaced 8 hours later a programmer.:cool: I had scroll upon scroll of print outs. My head throbbed, my eyes hurt. I needed the juice now. Soon, I got to play with my brothers KIM-1 6502 microprocessor board with the hex pad and a 6 Alphanumeric LED character display. Then the big leagues: An Ohio Scientific C1P - Basic Interpreter, cassette tape interface, 16K. But of course I lusted after an Apple II. Color Graphics. Disks. CP/M card. An absolute plethora of PC's - Kaypro "portable" and a succession of custom systems I built. OMG :omg: I had to have a Mac. and another. and another. Currently a 1.8 gig Dual core system running XP that's servicable. Not as much fun as the Apple II though... I'd forgotten... Back to work... Thanks for the diversion! Buzzby I spend way too much time with computers.

Ok, please explain acropolis to me. I visted the web site and I still scratching my head. Is this the precursor to SilverLight, or a new set of dev tools for it, or something orthogonal? Acropolis is (according to the web site) "a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications" Based on SmartClient, SilverLight, ???

:-O The stringValue wasn't. So, since I'd not done anything with setting a DataProvider, I'm assuming that if the object type is not "well known", then you get nothing. Sincerely, Lindsay

I want to paste from my app into Notepad. I am doing a straightforward Clipboard.SetDataObject(stringValue, true) and then when I look into Notepad, paste is disabled (as is copy/cut). I can cut and paste to and from other apps with notepad, no problem. What am I missing?:confused: Sincerely, Lindsay

Here's a story... I hope someone can help me write a happy ending in time for Christmas! I have a control namespace WvfCtlNet { public class WvfCtl : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl .... which I'm hosting in IE ... I'm not getting anything other than a little box (place holder) when the page is displayed. The control shows up in the GAC downloads ("gac /ldl") The version number agrees with the dll. When I look in Internet Options-Settings..-View Files... I see the following entry: ?FusionBindError!name=WvfCtlNet.dll WvfCtlNet.WvfCtl What the heck is this? (I think I know that Fusion is a technology related to 'no touch' installation but that's about it!) Why doesn't my contol pop up? I works when hosted by an Windows Forms app. Worst of all - This was working a week ago - I've not made any config changes, though I did recently install the Microsoft Web Services Extensions (WSE) pack. I am flummoxed! Thank you. Sincerely, Lindsay