Rob, yep, mine's the same. do you know the history of your machine? Just curious as we now know of two machines with the same case (apart from the lettering) and almost identical internals - just pondering whether both yours and my machine were prototypes and yours escaped the workshop somehow! (the guy I got my machines from says he knows for sure the Triple X system I have was a prototype, but not much is known about my other two systems apart from all three coming from the Torch workshop) Check out the mounting for the UHF connector. On mine it's a mangled bit of aluminium with a cardboard insulator underneath... I take it your modem has the round old-style plug on it? I have two different sorts of spare modems (two of each) that came with this lot and even though I'm never going to use a modem I'd like to put the right type back in the machine. I've since found a Unix installation guide amongst the stuff I got which might be what you need. Depends what of the install floppies I have still have readable data on them I suppose! likely the same Xebec board underneath that I have then. thanks - I'll give that a try. mine makes that wonderful "jet engine warming up" noise and smells of warm dust when powered on :-) I found another doc today the suggests holding down caps-lock whilst powering on will do a manual boot so I'll try that tomorrow and see what happens. cheers Jules ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/