Recent Wintel machines can turn themselves on and off, but anyway. I repeatedly become interested in the CoCo, and then lose interest again. What I wonder is this: I suppose I could find the package below for a relatively low price. But, I have two problems with those old home machines: they use composite monitors, and they are usually 320X240. solutions? Speaking of composites, I have an IBM CGA card that has a flicker whenever I type something. Solutions? In a message dated 97-12-02 13:11:37 EST, you write: << Funny... My CoCo can support multiple users, and it wasn't expensive at all... $200 for the machine, $300 for the floppy drive, $129 for OS-9 and $50 for the 13" color TV I bought at a garage sale... still cheaper than an single-user IBM box at the time, even when you add the $50.00 RS-232 cart and the $139 multi-pak so I could connect at up to 19200 bps with my Tandy 200... Speaking of my T200, it can turn itself on and off... can a Wintel box do that??? ;-)