Andrew - maybe we can form a (very limited membership!) Dulmont Magnum users group! [To the group as a whole as this early Australian (& world) laptop maybe of interest] Perhaps my D~M~ is not quite the same as yours. Mine is black, runs on 7VAC 3A (SN #10630) and to make sure everyone knows it was made in Australia it has the label "Kookaburra" in black on silver on the outer lid. The SN plate says "Dulmont Electronic Systems Pty Ltd" and the inbuilt software (see below) is dated 1984. It runs DOS 2.11 but is like nothing I have seen in most other ways. This one has no built-in storage, but has a large connector with two closely-spaced rows of 30 pins on the back which I guess was for a floppy. There are also two mini-D 15-pin female plugs that have been hand-labelled "printer" and "serial". At the top of the keyboard are two large green keys, one labelled OFF ON and the other RESET, but there is a trick - to get them to work you have to press them with the SHIFT key. Perhaps this is why they are rare; unless you know this trick you would think the machine was dead by just pressing the green ON key! There is no ALT key, and there are separate LF and RETURN keys. There are 12 function keys and a HELP key and these are used with the built-in menu program (type menu from dos). The only software with this machine are two little cartridges, one each of which plug into slots on either side of the hinged lid under a fairly hard to remove section of plastic that forms part of the case. The cartridges here are MAG CALC and MAG WORD, each accessible from the menu program. I haven't actually played around with these yet. BASIC would be on a cartridge like this, but it did not come with this unit. I can not find anything on the net other than a German equivalent of the French list referred to by others. Phil Guerney Brisbane, Australia. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Davie <adavie(a)mad.scientist.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, 23 November 1998 14:48 Subject: Dulmont Magnum is laptop,