Or, for a tight budget, you could try to acquire a P83 overdrive CPU or DX4/100 if the motherboard supports one of them. Does the "buffers=" statement in DOS startup files increase kb buffer? Martin Kurr email [log in to unmask] > From: John Morgan[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Keyboard Buffer. > Put the program on a faster machine. It'd be able to do sorts, etc > faster, and > keep up with her. As cheap as they are these days, there's no reason not > to > pick up a Celeron or AMD K6 based computer. Even if the program really > does > require DOS and won't run under Win95/98 you'd still get a huge > performance > gain. > Errol wrote: > > At the office we run an old DOS stock control program on a 486 Cyrix > 66mHz > > machine with 8meg's ram. > > The lady who punches the data in is so fast that she causes the computer > to > > freeze about 3 times a month. The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions. If you would like to contribute to the website, send any hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to: [log in to unmask]