Here's a winter project, can anyone think of a reason why you CAN'T wire up an adapter that would allow you to connect the pods to an IBM compatible computer and run them directly using a Z80 emulator? Seems to me that one's speed might go up a bit, plus no need to fix the tape drive...the old AT bus to the rescue? Or the newer bus...? Anyone game to look into this further? I can see a few items that need a bit of massaging, there is the PROBE circuitry after all, and the signature part of the probe, but the rest of the base is a fairly straight forward Z80A computer...and the 80XXX's are descendants... John :-#)# To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.