My interest in the Lilith computer has been restarted after some recent post to a.f.c. ( what a mess a.f.c. is...) I put in some extra effort and was rewarded with a Lilith that booted up into its Medos OS ( version 5.2) The last time this particular machine booted its OS was in 1990 . Which means that there is at least one machine with a complete set of microcode and higher layers avaliable. The machine remains VERY temperamental : Most attempts to boot end in disk softread errors, resetting the Lilith involves power cycling ( I looked for signs of a startupcircuit, could not find any ) Probably some diskplatter / head cleaning is due, not something I look forward too. And then there is the task of rescuing the data : with at single RS232 channel, no software and a flat directorystructure with over 500 entries, this looks also to be quite a task. That's right, the Lilith does not have a hierarchical filesystem ! It does have ethernet, but it is the very old ( first ?) 3MB standard. AFAIK it cannot be interfaced to something more recent. Jos