Pete: You want some advice, eh? Okay. These beasties support CGA or EGA (you set this up from the setup screen-- No, I don't remember the key sequence, maybe it was CTRL-ALT-ESC, I dunno), and AFAIK, I'm pretty sure they support 1mb simms. (the later models had VGA, and supported more memory). It's a '286 CPU (in case you haven't looked), and while it can't run '386 based stuff, worked fin for most MS-DOS appz. How do you make it boot? Ha. You have to have either: 3Com 3+Start server software, or 3+Open Start (for OS/2 LanMan). 3+Start is a component of 3Com's 3+Share Network OS, and was in direct compettiton with Novell Netware 1.x and 2.x. MS-DOS based networking at it's best, yesindeedy. ;^) Basically, you built a file that was just a bit image of a standard DOS boot disk, with the necessary drivers therein. The START service would then respond to the boot request from the 3Station, effect a network connection, and proceed to serve up the boot volume (volume name setttable via setup, I'm pretty sure). After booting, you would log on to the 3COm network. Pretty slick for 1986, actually. I think I still have all of this stuff somewhere, ifn you want it. The only problem is, you'll need to dedicate a PeeCee just to run the boot services (and whatever other network services you want). An awful lot of work for just a '286, but still fairly cool. You'll also have to dig up a pretty old ethernet adaptor to put in the server. Jeff On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:59:52 +0100 "Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk> writes: ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.