I have several 7978 drives with HPIB interfaces. I do not have a 7970 (yet). I am hoping the 7978 will be backwards compatible and work with the 1000/E without writing custom drivers, etc... I have not yet hooked up any HPIB devices to the 1000. Boy, I sure wish I had a 488 interface monitor... Hmmm... I think I know where there's one at :-) If anyone has any experience in making HPIB devices work with the HP 1000/E, I'd sure appreciave any pointers. I have not tried to download an ABS file via email yet. I had major problems downloading ABSs from Jeffs site using both Netscape and IE. For some reason, both those browsers could not handle the files. I thought this was rather strange because I have downloaded programs and other binary files without a problem. I was able to download clean binaries using the OPERA browser. If you have a small ABS file, send it and I'll see what happens. Meanwhile... I have been looking at the FST file format and it seems like it really isn't *that* difficult. I'm gonna spend a little time and see if I can decode (unarchive) some files into a more usable format. Looking over the file lists on the INTEREX site, there seems to be a bunch of really good stuff there if you can decode it. It's a real chicken and egg situation. If you already have RTE running with the FST archive utility, you can unarchive the files including RTE and FST. If you don't already have RTE with the FST utility, your stuck. I am supprized someone hasn't already written a cross platform decoder for this. Actually, they probably have... Hmm... Bet it's archived away somewhere in... FST FORMAT! Thanks again for the help, SteveRob _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx