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Another opinion I concur with Dave on the monitor size. I've been using a 14" for a couple of years and a larger monitor is DEFINITELY on my "short list". My machine is similar to the one you are looking at, 486/33, 8Meg, 210M drive, and I have the Diamond Speedstar card. The card works very nicely and seems very fast when combined with the Panacea display list.(I have only the real-mode DLD, havn't upgraded to the 386-mode) You should check with the vendor, but Panacea DLD is normally bundled with the Diamond board. I also agree that a digitizer tablet would be a nice addition, though I am beginning to lust after icon type menu tools. You do not need any other co-processor with the 486, it's built in. It would be nice to have a Weitec socket if you imagine using products such as 3D-Studio, and in the event a later release of ACAD takes advantage, but as of now ACAD 11 will not make use of a Weitec coprocessor. More memory is always nice, and I can see myself adding another 8Meg within about a year, though 8Meg is far from cramped for basic R-11 work. here more would be nice is for multi-tasking type applications. You don't say wheither this is an ISA or EISA machine, I think if you can afford the difference I'd go for the EISA, even though with the exception of SCSI interfaces there is not much now out there to take advantage of the EISA – IMHO its just a matter o time. [More]