I think they're genuinely rair ;) I also own two. The first was a hand-me-down from the Scottish university where I worked in the early 80's. (Too bad I wasn't able to inherit the Perq they had around then too!) I found my second Rair, incredibly, at a garage sale in Aylmer, Quebec, only a few months ago. Information about these machines is scarce also, although I'd expect Tony and other friends in the UK might be in a better position to dig something up. These rather elegantly styled micros (well, for the time: 1979-81) originated in England. The earliest models were built using the 8085, around an idiosyncratic motherboard/bus design (not S-100), and ran CP/M. Mine has the most complex-looking, overdesigned switch-mode power supply I've ever seen (although some DEC models perhaps come close). I think, but I'm not sure, that they put 8086's into their later models. Around 1981, I recall the British computer conglomerate ICL re-badged the Rair micros under their own name and sold them that way for a couple of years, probably because like many other huge computer companies they needed to get a micro on the market quickly to regain some credibility in the new marketplace for small computers. Somewhere, I have a reference to a defunct American company (Drake Micros?) that sold Rair for a while. If anyone is desperate to know I will dig up that bit of history. My original Rair machine is I think the original design: dual floppies, 32K ram, running CP/M v1.4 with a dumb terminal. It runs, and I can supply a boot disk for this model. The other machine is a little more recent and is blessed with a hard drive and is supposed to run CP/M v2.2 --but it won't boot. The hardware design is quite different from the original model, and my v1.4 floppy won't boot up this machine. So, if anyone can provide a system disk for this beastie I'd be very grateful. Arlen -- Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com