On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Cord Coslor wrote: Cord, forget about the system disks. You don't actually need them. The Apple was the kind of computer where you could use it with or without disks, although having software made it more useful. Each disk for the apple is self-contained and has whatever DOS it needs to run it. Your main concern right now is to get software for it, whatever that may be - games, utilities, productivity, etc. Find the apple users group near you (if there is one) or go to comp.sys.apple where you will find a ton of information on how and where to obtain apple software. Its not hard to find, there were literally tens of thousands of titles published for the Apple ][. If you've never had an Apple before, you want to go out and start collecting ssome of the games released for it, as there are some fun titles. But as far as system disks, if you want to round out your collection, then I guess you would want an original copy just to say you have them, but every Apple I ever got was second-hand, and I already had software from the previous apple I was upgrading from, and having the original system disks was a moot point, as there were so many other more useful disks to have. Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass