On 5/24/2006 at 1:12 AM staylor at mrynet.com wrote: Good luck, Scott! I think that there's probably not too much of a market for common soft-sectored formats. At least that's been my experience. It's a lot of fun figuring out those "one shot" formats--and there are more of them than you'd think. Sometimes, even the "common" ones like 240K Brother 3.5" diskettes, the encoding can be pretty challenging (used on a lot of Brother WP equipment). It took poking around in a Brother ROM to figure that one out. Even when you manage to figure out how to retrieve the raw data, figuring out how things are allocated and stored (if not one of the common operating systems) can get to be pretty interesting. One format that I kept coming back to for almost 10 years was the DECMate WPS I format. Bits and pieces were no problem, but how to put the whole thing together didn't happen until I found a source listing of the WPS software and worked my way throught it. The funny thing is that after I worked out all of the nuances and wrote a WPS I-to-HTML converter, the customer decided that he didn't need the information after all. Such is life. My current project is some Harris Lanier/AES 32-hard-sector 8" floppies that have spent the last 30 years in a closet. I hope they're ASCII-like. Cheers, Chuck