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I think you might want to use a hardcard for your Bridgeboard, if that is to be your major MSDOS machine, Jim. Or a hard drive for one, which would require a card anyway. I suspect you could locate a 40-50M one pretty cheaply by now. Maybe even bigger. I suggest the hardcard because it is just so easy to install. And I do think it is time you had a second drive for your Amiga. Prices have dropped dramatically. If fact, with your knowledge and experience, you could probably do well at one of the outlet places. One of my club members found a Tandy Outlet in North Ft. Worth that had a huge pallet of hard drives of all sorts, and they were selling them for $5 each, no matter what kind or size. He got a dozen or so, and had about 80% success in formatting and using them. Then he went back and saw that they had even lowered the price. So he bought a bunch more (if you got 10 or more, they were only $3 each this time.) True, he could have lost all his money, but with 80% success rate, he did quite well. Of course, he sells these things at the First Saturday sales in Dallas. He boxed up all the failures, labelled it as DEAD DRIVES, and sold the box of dead ones for nearly what he paid for the whole bunch. I'm seeing drives advertised these days for about 50 cents per meg, Jim. CompUSA had some 540M drives for less than $300 a week or so ago. Now, I know all about the Yorkshire way of thinking. You've taught me well. Just how much drive do you want, and how much do you want to pay for it? I can check with my friend in Dallas and see what he'll do for you if you wish. But a new one under warranty might be a better buy. —Betty