>Was the Italian firm involved with Sandy called Farmintel or something >similar or was that someone else.
I remember the name 'Farmintel' from that period too. The Futura was a computer I was very interested in at the time, and most disappointed when it didn't come out. They also had a QXL-style QL board for PCs as well IIRC, but that also never got sold. The Futura was promoted as hhaving SuperBASIC compatible programming language, only faster. I seem to remember it was a pseudo or semi-compiled BASIC along the lines of SBASIC. Maybe Dave can correct me there. -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html