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Best solution is working with the HP-IL/PC Interface Card and belonging software TRANS41. This configuration runs nice on modern PC´s (also with special software tool under WIN2000) but your motherboard make availlable an 16 bit ISA-slot. Some modern motherboards have one or two ISA-slots or special add on expansion boards exist (for example for the HP vectra PC´s). This solution gives you some advanced features - much more than only poor output to a video screen : printing, emualtion of a mass storage device (a virtual IL-Disc-Drive), data transfer to a DOS file and last not least exchange with HP-41 emulator software like EMU41 or V41. For all this applications proved software solutions exist. The HP-IL/PC Interface Card is availlable from me as a rebuild version of the HP82973A interface card.