Back in the late 70's the guy who started US robotics was building modem kits and systems with a guy names Terry who had a computer shop Midwest Micro Computer in lombard Il. It was second only to Itty Bitty Machine Company just off the Northwestern campus in Evenston as the first computer store in the Chicago area. Terry wanted me to help him fix a bunch of modem kits that were being solid the US Robotics name, I was shocked at the choice of name, and was told he went out of his way to secure the name and trademark, that was why we had to fix the kits he could not get working ASAP. Wish I could think of Terry's last name That one will bug me a while :( Any Old time Windy City hackers remember Terry ? Here is one for the crowd, Does any one else at the founding meeting of the Chicago Computer Society met for the first time at Devry and Ward C of CBBS and Modem1 through 7 fame asked everyone to stand up and sit down in response to what universal question ? BTW: the computer you are thinking about was z-80 ran cpm and wordstar and an early spread sheet and a hack of what became eventually Xmodem because that was about all there was then. I think the printer was the first used of the epxon FX80 not to be confused with the MX80 that came along a few years later. The FX printer was very popular in early Point of Sale systems. Thanks for bringing up a fresh batch of old memories. Bob Bradlee On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:08:21 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote: