On 2000/04/28 at 9:18pm -0500, Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote: I a Fluke 1720A with F-DOS. If there are grounds to believe that the same software would work, I can try to do something about copying or archiving the disks soon(er than I otherwise would). I might have multiple copies already, though I seem to recall that only one was reliably readable. I certainly do have multiple copies of the 1720A manuals. The 1720A is also TMS9900 based. It also has a touch-sensitive screen, about 3" x 8", on the left; on the right, a 5.25" floppy drive. Behind the floppy is a backplane holding 7"x10" cards: (1) CPU, plus two RS232; (2) floppy controller; (3) memory; (4) extended memory, used as a battery-backed RAM disk (though I believe one chip is bad, and the batteries are long gone); (5) empty; (6) video; (7) two IEEE488 (HPIB) ports. The video card is actually itself a TMS9900-based terminal (9981 chip specifically); i.e. the CPU talks to it as if it were a separate terminal. I actually have two of these, though one doesn't quite work. Also a 2400A 'Measurement and Control Link', which is a HPIB device with a backplane for interface cards, along with two 2401A backplane extension boxes and a matching stack of 4-wire input cards. (I'm not particularly attached to any of this, but it wouldn't be cheap to ship.) One question for the general list. F-DOS has a 'PIP-equivalent' called FUP, for "File Utility Program". I remember once seeing some other, older system that also had a FUP command (with somewhat different syntax), but I can't remember which... what was that other system? -- Kevin Schoedel schoedel(a)kw.igs.net