Some enterprising and clueful person should set up a 'classic computer cable creation company' :-). Specify the connectors and the wirelist (or maybe just the devides you want it to link), and you get a reproduction cable. I guess the problem is that it could be quite expensive... When I do HP calculator repairs (the one thing I occassionaly do get paid for), I charge a very low rate per hour, but still seem to end up charging close to the value of the machine in some cases (a couple of machines I fixed for myself recently -- an HP67 and HP97, would have totalled over \pounds 1000 for labour if they'd been chargeable repairs...) Remmeber me if you do set up such a company :-) -tony