On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Douglas Zander wrote: I've never heard anything like that, but I do know that tapes suffer from a much more common ailment: the oxide deteriorates with an audible change in frequency response. Normal audio tapes turn all bassy (lose high frequencies). That said, most of the tapes I have for Commodores and Acorns load without any trouble even today. Some of the ones I used on the Oric are completely gone, though. Those are from 1984. Some were good quality tapes, as well. But they're still unreadble by the machine. Most of the commercial software tapes are fine, though. I guess it has something to do with my tape recorder and the fact that Orics wrote tapes at 2400 baud instead of the more usual 300, 1200 or 1500 baud. --------------------------- ,o88,o888o,,o888o. ------------------------------- Alexios Chouchoulas '88 ,88' ,88' alexios(a)vennea.demon.co.uk The Unpronouncable One ,o88oooo88ooooo88oo, axc(a)dcs.ed.ac.uk