On Dec 14, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Jim Robertson wrote: > Most who addressed the VPC connection reported that it was cheaper > just to > buy the most inexpensive windows laptop one could find and consider > IT as a > peripheral to the sewing machine... True, you can probably find a used old PC laptop for a couple hundred bucks; with luck, you might even find someone to give you one, if it's old enough. If the software is still on floppy disks, it must be pretty old and not need much of a processor. Kirk Author of: The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood http://www.mcelhearn.com/unix.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France