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Mike, there is a place in Illinois that sells software and other things for the 8032. I never thought I'd forget the name of that place, but I have. It's something Music Shop, of all things! Anyway, if you ask over on CBMAPP, they can give you the name and phone number. I gave my three 8032/8096 machines to a church only a few months ago, and gave them all the software I had to go along with it. I had WordPro4+ (word processor) and PaperClip (better word processor), SuperBASE (the fore-runner of the Amiga and PC SuperBASE, and written by the same people), and VisiCalc, an assembler, an Eprom burner, and quite a few other nice little things. I also still have a 6-pen color plotter with a cable and software that lets it run with those machiens or with a C-64. I overlooked that when I was packing up all the stuff. Also, that music store sells a complete accounting package whose name I've forgotten, but it was pretty good. Completely integrated package with accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, inventory, job costing, and maybe more. I know that I spent most of a summer getting that package going for a swimming pool company in Dallas, and was rather impressed with it once I figured it all out. It was a bit slow, but extremely accurate and very hard to make a mistake. There was a time when it was recommended highly by lots of CPA's because it was so accurate and fool-proof. But slow – written in BASIC, mostly with POKE's as best I can recall. Anyway, drop over to CBMAPP and talk with them about your 8032. It's a neat computer. I loved mine, and was sorry to part with them, but needed the room. Is your drive an 8050 or a 4040? They work the same way. I still have a few of the manuals for those drives, I think. Not that they help a great deal. Commodore's manuals have improved tremendously since those days. You should have a Pet-to-IEEE cable that goes from the center of the back of the computer to the disk drive. After that, you use IEEE-2-IEEE cables <continued>