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Dave, Hey, might as well go for it! After all, it's only money. <g> Is that new CPU a 486DX2-66? If so, that's clearly where you want to be for the next couple of years. If you can do that for $475, it's a pretty good deal. Last time I looked, that class of board cost around $800-900 wholesale. (Sometimes I'm a reseller <g>) How quickly the dollars flow by!! I'm VERY surprised that someone said the Adaptec 1742 is not supported in Corel SCSI. My impression has been that Adaptec and Corel are very tight, and the Corel software is targeted at ADaptec boards. I don't know that, though. I have been very pleased with the UltraStor 24F EISA SCSI boards. I have one in our main Netware server here, and it has worked flawlessly. Recommended. You don't actually need Corel SCSI for your CD-ROM or any hard disks. Ultrastor has a nice package of software which supports most all CD-ROM's and lots of other stuff, for something like $50-70. I have that running on a client's system with an Ultrastor 24F, Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM, and an HP 1.6 GB hard disk. Very nice! For cabling your external SCSI box, you'll need two chassis mount centronics connectors (50-pin) with ribbon connectors on the back. You run the ribbon cable around in a loop inside the box and out to the other connector on the back. Then you plug in a terminator on that other connector, until you continue the chain to another box. You could also fudge a bit and just put one centronics connector on the back. Then you will have to install the terminator on the last device on the internal ribbon cable. I have never seen a terminator resistor pack for ribbon cable. They go either on the SCSI devices or on the centronics connectors. My source in Houston for all these parts is Electronic Parts Outlet at 713-784-0140. They usually have all this stuff in stock. If you can't find what you need, let me know and I'll try to get it for you. You're looking at some serious $$$ here. Don't forget you'll need 16 MB of RAM for NT. You'll get near $2,000 for the motherboard, EISA SCSI host, CD-ROM and say an additional 8 MB of RAM. Go for it! -=Rob=-