--- Doug Coward <dcoward(a)pressstart.com> wrote: Right. Maybe that was the price. It's been so long, I forget. I remember that I could afford it and not a full-blown Elf II or whatever was common by then. That came later, I think. Try around 1980 or 1981. I think it was gone by then. By 1982, I had a C-64 (w/1540!) I was getting paid to program. Good place to look. I have a crate of those, too. Some did not survive a basement flood at my mother's place. :-( No progress lately. I got stumped at the layout phase and have had zero time to devote to it in the past six months. I've been working on my farm when I'm not pushing bits to pay for the farm. I have some I/O chips and other parts, a schematic captured in OrCAD and no idea how to get a valid netlist from OrCAD Capture into OrCAD layout. I can do the tutorials from the rat's-nests, but I can't get my schematics (even a 2-chip TTL test) to generate a file that will give me part silhouettes and a rat's-nest. I just bought the bare board. I may have mis-remembered the price. I know I got the CPU chip and 1822 RAMs from Hughes-Peters here in Columbus. I also got the RCA VIP docs from them, too, when a friend cleaned out his file cabinet. Never seen it, sorry. -ethan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com