Leon courteously, but erroneously, wrote:

;~) LOL... Then you would not want to watch David Marks anyway as his
stuff is more complicated than a VCR.

WADR, if it's made of wood, it can't be more complicated than a VCR.

Actually, for me not much is. In years now long past, I repaired my Vector
Graphics System B with circuit diagrams, a chip handbook, and a soldering
iron (absent-mindedly turned off my state-of-the-art Hayes 300 baud modem
before shutting down the computer); debugged RS-232 ports; and wrote my own
stock-charting program in Gee-Whiz Basic. (I also walked miles to school
uphill in both directions.) I don't know whether it's what passes for a
"user interface," the crappy manuals, or some odd blind spot in my own
mental processes, but none of those chores was as hard as getting a VCR to
work properly on the timer. (Configuring Linux did come close; next time, I
buy one of the consumer-oriented versions.) I can set them up blindfolded;
I just can't use them.

Owen Davies