If you are really interested in Amateur Radio I highly recommend the Yeasu FT-60. They can be had for $100 on eBay or $150 new. They are waterproof, easy to program, have great RX and TX, 5 watts, military spec, very intuitive physical keyboad and knobs, come with a nice antenna (you'll have to upgrade the beofang's trust me), dual band 2/440, RX from 100MHz to 980MHz, and will last you many years. They are worth the extra money in all respects. I've used beofangs and not been able to hit repeaters while the yeasu has no problem. Tech is easy to get into, you can take the test virtually at home now, and all around fun. Just some thoughts.

I found the orginal 3.5" floppies for my 286 NEC portable computer! The ones I had were corroded. Software included Ms-Dos 4.1, WordStar, and an excel like database. The beast is still chugging along with a 20MB hard drive, 640KB of RAM, plus extended EMS. It had a wonderful amber plasma screen with no burn in. Updates in the future include CF hard drive and network interface.