For the last three years TAPE OP was created on a Packard Bell PC computer, a 486 with a small hard drive. It's rather slow with a small memory. With the switch to having Substance Media Works publishing the magazine the text files needed to be in Microsoft Word 4 in a Macintosh format. The Substance crew were kind enough to send up an "extra" Macintosh Classic which was sitting around the offices. I went and got an old dot-matrix printer, new keyboard and new mouse for $90. I asked about used laptops and the woman told me I could get a faster laptop than the Mac I had for $169. This means that for $259 I can have enough computer power to edit this magazine and even bring some of the work home on the portable computer when I need to. Not a bad investment. In 1991 this computer was brand new, and probably cost a bit and was "state of the art" to some. Now you can pick them up for $100. People were laughing when I set it up at the office. But shit, it does the job I need to do and it was cheap.