to use a regular monitor you need to get a scna doubler. They made a new external one called scantoaster it nice. Yes the os was updates, not that muc realy. check out os3.9. There is a threat that they will FINALY release 4.0 but you ned new hardware (that you can't buy) to run that! I find that there is quite a bit of new software out there... many new things if you have been gone for 10 years, dig around here to find them!