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A nice looking well designed 8086 box - 128-768 KB mem, monochrome high res graphics and two FD drives or one 10 MB HD and one FD (all full height). The disks could read 'standard' 360 K MFM or some secial CGR (?) format for up to 1 MB (?). As an additional genuine feature a Codec (Basicly a kind of special A/D D/A converter for sound frequency range - as used for ISDN) was integrated - thus allowing _high_ quality (mono) sound output. No general purpuse I/O bzw. enhancement bus concept - But if we look for the head behind, Chuck Peddle, this concept becomes somewhat familar :) (Did I mention the _big_ highly usable keyboard ?) Eventualy the Machine was renamed to 'Victor'. Also a compatible Portable was availabe, named 'Vicky' (Did anybady tell you that Compaq startet the x86 Shlep-tops ? In fact, the machine (plus slots) was exactly what the IBM-PC should have been :( - both macines came to the market about the same time, and at least over here in Europe, the IBM had no easy stand against the Sirius. One of the earlyest WYSIWYG publishing systems (for real publishers :) was based on the Sirius. Definitly a must have for the collection. Servus Hans Oh, yes, OS of choice was CP/M 86, and later on MS-DOS -- Der Kopf ist auch nur ein Auswuchs wie der kleine Zeh. H.Achternbusch