My compliments for the article on the VMS. I was busy with it for some time, but if you look at the pages differently you see symbols that look like our current alphabet. They have a characteristic thick beginning followed by a thin curve and then a thick ending. Like if you're doing calligraphy! The letter combinaton e-s-o-g is found remarkably often in the text sometimes preceded or followed by a decorative symbol. When we had typing lessons in our school we had to practice by repeating the same character sequences over and over again. Could this be a writing exercise-book, used by several different persons? And freely decorated by the some teenagers with over-active hormones? Or will I now get the 2002 Nobel prize for Nonsense? - Gerard Vrakking, Raalte