John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote: Thanks, my pleasure, and if I get tired of it (which is possible, I have to admit my interest is pretty much derived from seeing an "8510" prompt somewhere in UCSD Pascal for the Apple ][ and wondering what it was 20+ years ago) I will pass it along to someone else who will appreciate it. Anyway, this was at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA. I know who the other collector is and don't think he's likely to trash it. I just don't know him well enough to say too much about who he is. It doesn't look hard, but then I'm a software guy and would be thinking about how to change the encoding of an existing keyboard with parallel output, or how to front-end a keyboard with another processor running my code, even if that other processor is newer and faster. What I'm curious about is that this doesn't seem to have quite the same arrangement as the 8510/a machines that you have described on your web pages and the manuals in the ITDA. This one has the "terak" name plate at the top front, both disk drives in the one box (something which I guess was made possible by the introduction of half-height 8" drives), and the serial card and distribution panel appear to be different. Guess I should try to take some pictures, next weekend perhaps. -Frank McConnell