On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote: I figured as much anyway. My guess is that someone bought this secondhand and used it for a while. I'll know for sure if I fire it up and find basic crap on the hard drive like letters and checkbook balances, etc. I'm trying to figure out if I can use a normal power cord for this, since there is a normal power cord socket on the back, or if the actual power cord is the one that attaches to that round, shielded power connecctor. My casual examinations so far have shed no light on it. I may have to tear into it a bit to figure it out. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out. Coming this October 2-3: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0! See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 05/25/99]

At 08:26 AM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote: AFIK there's no requirement for or against removeable drives or media. I do know that a lot of security managers don't like machines that have removeable drives or media because even well intentioned employees may be tempted to copy their data/program and take it and use it on another machine that may not be tempest secure. FWIW that's the claim of the defense in the trial of the US scientist that is currently charged with selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese. i.e. he only copied the data to use it on another computer (outside the secure area) and that he did not sell it to the chinese. Joe