Hello, Had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Jay West at the hamfest, where he lrelieved me of one slighty non-working Apple ][ and disk drive. After having made $60 selling four 6146 tubes, I got crazy and bought another Apple, this time a IIc, with monitor and external 5.25 drive for $10. Guess I'm just rotten to the core . . . . I noticed it takes a 3.5 disk and not the 5.25 like I've seen on the older ones. If any of you are semi-experts on these, shoot me an email off-list with some of the basics, like formatting a floppy. Not having a book, you can't say RTFM. Kind regards -- Gary Hildebrand Box 6184 St. Joseph, MO 64506-0184 816-662-2612 or ghldbrd(a)ccp.com