i thought about that but i'm unsure of Virtualbox. It is a
2.6 GHz machine and i think that would be a bit heavy on memory. For
testing apps and alternative environments i thought was what
Virtualbox was good for. With XP this machine is a bit slow and so
win2k or win98 dual booted would provide me with what i need - also
allowing me to remove the decent hard drive that XP is on and replace
it with a smaller one that i've got spare. It is just for this
eMindMaps that i still need to use and the scanner. I should get a
linux one but doesn't seem worth junking a virtually unused scanner
which is quite good. I tried a new Canonoscan one a couple of years
ago but it was only Autoscan and faulty so was returned. Thing is with
scanning if one can set the 'darkness/lightness' manually that is very
much better than Autoscan - which most now i think.