In case anyone cares, I ended up getting working that Videotrax card I wrote about a day ago. What might be useful to know is that I followed Dwight's advice and re-seated the only socketed chip on the board (that customy Motorola chip). After doing this everything seems to be working peachy. I'm more than halfway through dumping another 10 megabytes of data from one of the VHS data tapes I have; so far so good. New maxim: when all else fails, re-seat. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]