<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Chris Rowson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:d6c346600711121040g7bfd1244s67391aec5e32d20f@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> sold my patent to a chap called William for a couple of hundred dollars.</pre> </blockquote> Ah that must be William Portals II; his son (who has a different cognomen) is credited with inventing a form of software (ha ha - how ridiculous,  it'll never catch on) - except maybe in one of them parallel-universes. Must go now my wife and Rod Serling are bringing me one of those jackets that does up at the back. Eddie </body> </html>