it might be a misnomer to designate the NEC APC as the only DOS computer to have built in 8" disk drives - although probably true - since others had external disks as standard options. I've just obtained one, along with external 5 1/4" drives to boot (no pun intended). As a matter of fact, I want to figure out just how to get it to boot off the 5.25's. Were there cards for an IBM PC or 100% compatible that interfaced to an external 8" floppy drive? The Xerox had 8" drives as options I've learned, but mine only has a built in 5 1/4. Actually, the expansion unit, which looks like the "cpu" has the drive, and a seemingly flakey hard drive. The O/S and development disks imaged fine, but other junk, Wordstar etc., didn't :(. I have a job on my hands figuring out how I'm going to hopefully archive the APC disks - 10 boxes of them - which is why I'd like to boot the thing off the 5 1/4's. Any suggestions? Anyone with software for these 2 beasts? __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html