A lot of the new compaqs we are buying here at work do not have an ISA bus. Who would have ever thought that would have happened? To be honest, I'm a fan of external modems. I like the pretty lights and they're easier to install, just hook them up to your serial port! Also they're not architecture dependent so you can use them on anything from a dumb terminal to a PC to an HP workstation. To me, that makes it well worth the extra $20 for external. Forget software modems, they're a thing that sprouted from the ugly beast of Microsoft. Mike Neuliep mike@illiana.net