To all with interest in IBM 7090

Al, I never said that this wasn't true, what I said was you that you loose something when you loose physical access to the objects. To me your keenness to acquire them illustrates this, and if you are prepared to ship them 6000 miles you must be keen. In fact, on reflection, its not just a pity, its upsetting and distressing that the best place for materials related to UK computing is in the US. This doesn't make it un-true... However whilst I don't think I can argue over the tapes, (I had forgotten they were 7-track) and I don't know any one over here with a 7-track drive, I would like to mildly disagree on the cards and manuals. If physical access isn't important surely it would be cheaper to scan the manuals in the UK rather than ship them 6000 miles to west coast of the USA. The same with the cards, shipping a USB card reader to the UK would be cheaper and more cost effective than shipping several heavy boxes of cards the other way? Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum