Hi, I received the following two-part email this week... A free 9835... ... I moved up to an HP 9835. [It's in Canada] ... Now the good news, I still have the 9835 in my basement. I think it's still close to being functional, it turns on without clouds of blue smoke but the monitor appears to have given up so no way of seeing if it is really booting up. I'm not sure about the tape drive? If you could locate a monitor, maybe you could get a functioning 9835. It's free to a good home And, the project: I have been looking everywhere for anyone who might have a functioning 9835/45 because I still have about 10 tapes with thousands of pages of HP BASIC that I would love to off load to some form of modern media in ASCII and translate into modern BASIC. If you could help me with this problem I would even pay the shipping of the 9835 to you, if you are interested? Anyone interested, reply (offline) to me, and I'll pass the contact info on to you. thanks, Stan -- Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html