Hi Adrian, I read your posting from classcmp.org which read as follows: Hi folks, Anyone have any info on the subject beast here? In fact, does anybody want one? I've got said twin 8" floppy drive monster here and it doesn't fit in with my museum since it isn't a home computer. It also doesn't have a keyboard, but it powers up and asks nicely for a program disk. All I can find is that CPT Corp were based in Eden Prairie, Michigan, were founded in 1971 by Dick Eichhorn and ceased to exist in the early 1990s. The Babbage institute has a CPT 8000 and the picture there is pretty much what the 8520 looks like. Only it has a keyboard :) The 8520 is an Intel 8080-powered machine, and I only know that because I took it apart. Google searches only turn up people offering a data transfer service, so either there aren't many left or it's just not a very interesting machine! Like I say, free to a good home but it's HEAVY, maybe 50-60lbs heavy. I could sure use the space it takes up and I don't want to put it back in the tip.... I thought that you might be interested to know that I used to work for CPT (from 1980 - 1987) and was there (and worked in production) while the 8000 series was being manufactured. A couple of corrections to your information: 1. CPT was based in Eden Prairie Minnesota, not Michigan. 2. CPT was founded by Dean Scheff, not Dick Eichorn. Dean started the company in 1971, and the original product was a cassette tape base memory add-on for IBM Selectric typewriters (The name CPT originally meant Cassette Power Typing). As you already know, the CPT 8000 series (8000, 8100, et al) was a dedicated word processor. The beauty was in it's 14" portrait oriented screen. This screen was white with black characters and had a very high scan rate (for the day). The 8000 perfectly mimicked a sheet of paper being scrolled through an electric typewriter and was therefore very comfortable for most office workers to use. CPT had other products like the 6000 (a low powered, half screen version of the 8000), the Diskpack (sp? I don't remember how we spelled that shared disk system, the Phoenix (word processing with graphics) and the 9000 series (a low profile replacement for the 8000 series that utilized the Intel 8086 processor. If I dig into my archives I could probably find printed articles and sales brochures, let me know if you would be interested in any scanned images of this information. John D Mustain Exact Software * <mailto:john.mustain@exactsoftware.com> john.mustain(a)exactsoftware.com * www.exact-software.com * 800.468.0834 x271 * 333 East Center St. - Marion, OH 43302 PS, as I was writing this email to you I was enjoying some coffee from my 1986 vintage CPT 1971-186 15 Years of the Best cup that was given to all CPT employees at the time. I've used it nearly every working day since it was given to me. Later!