Have you forgotten to turn on the turbo function? Some clones defaults to 4.77mhz instead of 8mhz especially if it has no turbo switch and have faster cpu in it. (!!) It pauses a bit on first key press when starting off right after startup. If you're working from floppy, that is expected to have lot of pauses but very little if any if working from HD. I'm heavy user and know more of works than most s/w I've is works 2.0 for my primary WP work banging away reams of college paper as late as couple of years ago on that Luddite and on former 486, and I still have that s/w sitting on my P5's HD! It's cool to fit whole thing on one 1.44 floppy. This works 2.0 is best example of user interface without interrupting your train of thought and look as you go...And no playing games of guessing buried in GUI menus, waiting for fancy features to load in on demand. And keep that hands on that keyboard is BIG plus especially without fuction keys and mouse. And another good example was News Xpress had same user interface but the next version totally lost it, using windows crap. :( That is one another big reason I'm looking at linux ongoing basis. Right now I do not wish to break off win95 yet as I have not yet explored all the linux and it's s/w. Right now, thinking what is best way to intergate the linux into my main P5 using lilo and whole 1GB hd as home for linux in my 3hd/cdrom configuration. Oh about the works, one thing for certain, M/S did not begat this original works code. I've the lotus smartsuite 96 now, not used yet because I'm out of college for various reasons. Ugh, what a bloatware! 150+mb full install. Oh well. No problem to pass on suggestions on choice of linux like Slackware Walunt, or such that was put together properly but not so pricey as Red Hat and it's imcompatiable installer format. Jason D. PS: Leading edge pc's are pretty well built despite it's looks and even late case models, that ones that is 5" tall desktop we're able to upgrade them with standard 486 and pentiums in them.