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Dave, You'll definitely want to look at the Hercules Graphite card. It can do 800 x 600 x 65,536 colors at 72Hz. That's the 1 MB VRAM version. They are coming RSN with a 2MB version for more colors at higher resolutions. I have heard that their windows drivers are reasonably solid, but cannot verify that personally. This is an ISA card, which according to Steve Gibson's recent testing is very fast, only exceeded by some local bus stuff. Have you seen Gibson's WINVID.COM program that summarizes his testing of windows video accelerators? It's a gem. I think I got it here on CI$ in the IBMHW forum. Definitely worth a look. There's no reason at all you couldn't use one of the mini-tower cases as an external drive cabinet. That $75 probably _does_ include a power supply. The main complication would be mounting the SCSI connectors on the back (no holes the right size) and making up the required cabling. Not particularly difficult, but tedious and the parts may be difficult to locate. If all else fails, I know an electronics shop in Houston which has all the stuff. You know the difference between men and boys, don't you <g> -=Rob=-