As a followup... Today I got the mux board put together and hooked up a few terminals. I hit return and was greeted with the infamous "PLEASE LOG IN". Then I created an A000 account, logged in, and entered/ran some basic programs... WOOHOO! It's all up 100% now. Funny how I just got the system completely usable today, and already I'm thinking about hardware upgrades *smile* It will take me some time - weeks at least & maybe months to get around to putting a FreeBSD machine on front of the system so people can telnet to the HP2000 box across the internet. However, if someone just can't wait to play with it (yes, a few people have already asked me about this) - send me a private email and I'll slap a modem directly on the system so you can dial in. All you'd have is long distance fees. Regards! (time for me to go have lots of beer to celebrate)