At 06:30 PM 6/18/97 -0500, you wrote: Here I go volunteering again. Could those books be scanned/ocr'd? I'm sure that the original authors wouldn't care, even if they did admit to writing them. I have all the hardware and software to do that. I have a softspot in my heart (and my head) for the 8008. That was my first computer. I couldn't afford to buy something like the Mark 8, so I designed, and built it, myself. By the time I was ready to retire it, I had an S100 video card (SSM), and a 9-track tape drive, running one track serial at 5k baud. Used my own designed r/w amps, even. It ran great, just real slow. I still have the CPU chip from that machine, holding down a piece of foam. Seing these posts about the Mark 8 made me nastolgic. If I could get enough data, I might consider building a new machine with that old "first CPU" chip. Today it would look a LOT different. Let's see, what WOULD it look like? Start with a PAL to generate the oddball clocks, and some misc decoding, for it, then throw a 32k skinnydip SRAM at it (OK, you can tie one address line to ground to limit it to 16K), an 8K EPROM (since that's what I've got in stock), say, an 8251 for serial I/O, and you've got a basic machine. What do ya think? Tim Olmstead timolmst(a)cyberramp.net