Thanks for all your suggestions:
I will explore some more of the suggested options in the future.
I purchased a new HP Laptop today for less than $400.00 it has all the options I was looking for. the OS is windows 10
I will be loading JMRI and some of my other software give it a test run.
A few of the programs I have been running on XP could no longer be updated. so this should allow me to get up to date on some other things as well.
Thanks again
Chuck
Brick NJ
