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Hello, gentlebeings, Thanks to you all. Why? 'Cause I KNOW you will be able and willing to help me help a friend. A friend of mine, Greg, is a [commercial artist / graphic artist / designer / ?] in his spare time. He is interested in establishing his own business, or rather upgrading it, by acquiring a computer/CAD system. He is perusing all the ads & literature he can find relative to this aim, but we all know how slow and sometimes misleading that process can be. Since I am partially responsible for increasing his interest in "automating" his 'one true love' I volunteered to get as much info as I could from the CIS membership. What Greg needs is recommendations/reviews from people with "handson" experience with various CAD's and computer systems. He likes my computer (Tandy 1000 TX) but not the monitor. He is interested in an AMDEK monitor (1832 ??), but doesn't know if it will work with the T1K. And he has no concrete idea as to which CAD software application(s) would be most suitable to his purposes. It is difficult for me to say exactly what he will be doing, what his range is, but I do know that at least one building here in Dallas has upon it a "logo" which he was commissioned to design. He has evinced interest in "desktop publishing", but again I am hard put to say just exactly what he would like to do with such software as we have discussed this in only the most general terms, since I am "graphics illiterate". Any suggestions, general or specific, would be appreciated, as they will help shorten the time and broaden the base of his deliberations.