Continuing my perusal of the FIDO archive I found a reference to a MSDOS board supplied for the DecMate II by DEC " xpu board (pc27x-ah) with 256k for _only_$1285.00 " even tho the DecMate had been discontinued. At the same time "The PC27XAH board was advertised in Newman's October catalog for $195." Supports my contention that most of the companies beloved by us enthusiasts were rapacious. Poor Bill Gates and other companies being destroyed by home users piracy. Pfaw !! Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com