JDMoore wrote: First question, did the BBC (and variants of) make it across the pond to America? Yes. But only in a limited way. I think it found it's way into some schools, but Commodore and Apple were tough market nuts to crack (no pun intended). JDMoore wrote: Secondly, what is the wackiest and/or most ingenious use anyone can remember that was made of the superb user port? I have no idea. But it was probably nothing more than a bidirectional parallel port, right? I used to work for Skyles Electric Company, and they made all sorts of fancy stuff that hung off of a Commodore PET, both ports and things you had to open up the machine and insert between the socket and the ROM chip. The coolest thing I ever saw was some guy controlling a laser and mirrors for a laser light show through his PET. I think he also did some nifty stuff with Christmas light chasers too. Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!

Thanks, very interesting. Do you know if it integrates into Visual Studio.NET? Vagif Abilov MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway Hex is for sissies. Real men use binary. And the most hardcore types use only zeros - uppercase zeros and lowercase zeros. Tomasz Sowinski

There is other way of communicating with the component. Let Component:CMyComponent. Interface:IMyInterface. Now the code goes trhis way(inside the main if client is console else other suitable function.) ************************************************************ CoInitialize(NULL); HRESULT hr=CoCreateInstance(CLSID_CMyComponent,NULL,CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER/*Depends*/,IID_IMyInterface,(void**)&pMyInterface); //pMyInterface is a pointer to interface. pMyInterface->.... CoUninitialize(); ************************************************************ Let me know if u understood. Regards, Y.Yamini Devi.