More than a few times, Adam Osborne, and Osborne Computer, made public/published statements about availability of computers, peripherals, accessories, and software that did not yet exist. When the company went under, completion of some of those items has been placed "on hold". Indefinitely. Many of those items were eventually released as competing products by third parties. Since the designer refutes the existence, is there any reason not to assume that the one being discussed might be a third party product? or a prototype? Is there any reason to assume that the announcement of the battery in the owner's manual was not an "Osbiorne announcement" (premature)? For example, Adam stated that they had a program that would read and write every disk format in existence. At Computer Faire, I was heckled by an "Osborne dealer" who claimed that it existed, although she did admit that she hadn't seen it, nor received her copy yet. All that I could say to that impossible claim was, "May we all live so long." Sho'nuff, a week later, we we contacted by Osborne Computer to discuss licensing XenoCopy for them to sell. (for those not familiar, there are about 2500 different soft-sectored formats, and each one needs to be analyzed and sometimes additional code written. XenoCopy handles 400 of them. I would be especially fascinated how the Osborne software would handle hard sectored, GCR, 100 TPI, etc. formats!) In spite of his overzealousness in premature announcements of products, I really liked Adam, and the world is a less colorful and exciting place without him. I knew him before and after Osborne Computer (his books were good, the external hard disks were a flop, and his "paperback Software" lawsuit loss was the start of "taste and smell" copyright. R.I.P. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com