Thanks for all the help.Fred hit the nail on the head; some of the programs (not just .exe files), are no longer available, and several others offer only a much more expensive, more "feature-packed" version that I do not need or want, and it only costs about $2000. The old, fewer fetures version that I have been using for more than 10 years, works just fine, and suits me perfectly.
I may use rockhillmanor's suggestion about adding an external KB, but believe it or not, I have never found a pc keyboard I like better than my old Toshiba Satellite.
I might aldo try the software conversion utility to see if I can bring my progs over to the new pv. Thanks again
