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Thanks… Dave Thomas already told me about CONFER.HLP, and I have it now. Sorry I missed the CO! I pulled out an old 1978 CMOS Cookbook right after getting youse last message, and that was the end…. I believe 8 relays could be controlled in all their possible configurations with only a single OUT X,0-255 (or PRINT#X,…). I want to produce an 8-bit parallel output from a byte sent out the RS232. Each of the 8 bits would be assigned its own relay to control. One or two of the relays can be used as computer-controlled transfer switches for the RS232 data lines. Can use the built-in cassette relay to select/deselect the relay box. The relay box switches the RS232 lines, then the program deselects the relay box and begins communicating with the newly selected RS232 device. Allows the 100 to communicate with the relay box, serial printer, other computers, speech synthesizer, and an analog-digital converter (w/ BSR interface) too. And also to control the power supplies of each. ALL WITHOUT TOUCHING ANYTHING EXCEPT THE KEYBOARD!!! Or under program control! (The circle will be complete when we get an affordable speech recognition system.) Sixteen relays could be controlled with only 2 bytes. (Or is my math off?) Or they could still be controlled by a single byte using 2 (8-relay) banks. (Continued in next message…)