On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Asterisk wrote: Basically, it's sort of a primitive attempt at a docking station. It's a (rather large) box that connects through a ribbon cable and _very_ fragile connector to the expansion port of a Model 100. It provides a single-sided double-density disk drive (room for one more -- I do not know of any with a second drive installed) and composite video output (RCA jack) to a monitor or channel 3/4 output to a television. This permitted the Model 100 to have a 80x24 or 40x24 display when connected. The box is far larger than it needs to be and is mostly hollow. The DOS is quite sparse, and the disk file directory looks much like the RAM file directory. It added hooks to BASIC for disk file I/O etc. To the best of my knowledge it did not work with and there was no equivalent product for the Olivetti or NEC machines. An innovative concept, and like many of Tandy's most innovative concepts such as the Tandy 2000 and the Microchannel systems, it sank almost without a trace. -- Ward Griffiths "the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor