Hi Tony, Whereabouts is the blanked-off port on your machine? Above the keyboard connector on my machine I have a printer port; above that there's markings for a modem ("BT Link") socket, but this isn't fitted in my machine. I'm just going from photos at the moment but I'll dig the machine itself out tomorrow and take a look. My machine's a little earlier than yours, and I don't know if they were ever produced in significant enough numbers for there to be a totally standard design. It's possible some machines had the port and others didn't. AFAIK, the B+ board itself is totally standard, with only extra ROMs to support the 32016 coprocessor and the hard disk. I don't know of any reason why the user port wouldn't work. I do like the way everything folds out once the lid is taken off, even if the engineering is a little flimsy. Can you do me a favour sometime and tell me the hard disk model in your machine? I'd like to fit the correct hard drive to mine sometime (and certainly one that has a black front rather than the current grey :-) cheers Jules ===== Backward conditioning: putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk

I only know one other person with an ACW so I'll chuck him a quick email to ask. He normally takes a few days to reply however :) cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(