Al Kossow wrote: Yes, that's the view I'd take too... but having said that, what's the expected remaining lifetime of a floppy? Time is probably of the essence, I suppose, and where they go depends on who will deal with them first. We're in the same boat... it's nice that the stuff ends up with a museum where lots of people can see it, but some things are still time-critical and there's always the danger with anything received that it won't get dealt with until it's too late. It's one of the reasons I really want a device that'll just image a floppy at the lowest possible level, because in *most* cases it buys time (there will still be exceptions, where a marginal signal could be recovered from the original media but not from an image) until the data can be analysed "properly". cheers Jules