On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, LordTyran wrote: The TRS-80 Model 2 had 8 inch drives. To handle those on a PC, you'll have to start with interfacing 8 inch drives to your PC. Most 1.2M PC disk controllers can handle an 8 inch drive if you're willing to make a special cable. In addition to the hardware, NO TRS-80 uses an MS-DOS disk format. So, you'll need to run special software on the PC. The programs will usually handle file transfers; you're still going to need a boot disk (Don Maslin?). There are several file transfer rograms available: 22-disk (shareware), Uniform, Media Master, Hypercross, XenoCopy-PC, . . . Guess which one I prefer :-) There are several OS's that you can run on the Model 2: Model 2 TRS-DOS (related only in name and distribution to Model 1/3/4 TRS-DOS), and multiple flavors of CP/M (Lifeboat, Pickles and Trout, etc.) Xenix requires the 68000 co-processor board (which converts the machine into a Model 16?) As for serial cables: I don't remember whether the Model 2 had a db25, or a dual row header for serial (I remember parallel had a dual row header). If you don't have the pinout for the serial connector by Monday, remind me and I'll look it up for you. -- Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com 2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366 Berkeley, CA 94710-2219