Hey, I have had the luck to be a member of both the 82 and 86 "crowds" and I must say, each calculator has its benefits... I was looking through old issues of 8xthing, and came across a prog for the 82, it draws Random Dot Stereo Grams in BASIC... but I tried to run it on my 86...SLOW AS HELL.... The 82 is MUCH faster than the 86.... But they're all the same running ASM code, aren't they? Ryan