After many years using modems, going back from 56K to as little as 2.4K, I moved up to a 'high speed' DSL connection some years ago. My ISP is ICA Canada Online. Their connection service has been reliable and dependable, and when problems arise (a rare event) they are helpful and informative. 

In February 2003, I built a 'new' workstation computer for myself, with a full height tower case, AMD Athlon 1.4Mhz processor, 512MB of PC133 SDRAM, 2 large hard drives (1-40GB 1-80GB) with removable drive racks, a 40x CDROM and a 24x10x40x CD-RW. Unlike many of my friends and associates, however, I still have not upgraded my operating system (Win98) even though plans to do so soon are in the works. In this regard I am inclined to quote the old expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!", but my hard drives are getting too full, Win2K can handle much larger capacity drives.

Last year I finished transcribing tracks from my father's 78 r.p.m. record collection (over 1,100 old 10-inch discs) onto hard drive in full WAV format. This collection takes just over 80 gigabytes. I really enjoyed listening to the fine old music from the likes of Benny Goodman, Miff Mole, Duke Ellington and countless others. Now I have moved on to 33 r.p.m. LPs - 'dozens of em - which will probably take me the rest of my natural life to transcribe. Someday, somewhere, I might even put some of this stuff online - right after I overfill my iPod!