G'day there, Although I've been watching this list for a few months now, this is my first post to the cctech mailing list so I guess I should start by saying hello from Perth, Western Australia. I've been collecting DEC machines and Commodore 8-bitters for about eight years now, and I've recently started collecting members of the Apple ][ and Macintosh family. (While I'm yet to pick up any big iron PDPs, I do have representatives of DEC's PDP-11, VAX, MIPS and Alpha families.) I've also managed to pick up members of the PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, SUN SPARC and IBM RS/6000 families, though this part of my collection is much less comprehensive. Anyway, on to the topic of my message --- currently up for sale on eBay is a set of RSTS/E and DECnet/E tapes. I've been playing around with RSTS/E, TOPS-20, and earlier versions of VAX/VMS, Ultrix and BSD UNIX in the hopes of setting up a limited ARPAnet-era free public access network, and while I do have some RSTS/E 9.2 boxes running under simh, they're basically standalone. Now, some RSTS/E and DECnet/E tapes have come up for auction on eBay (see http://cgi.ebay.com.au/DEC-Software-Kit-RSTS-E-Tapes-More_W0QQitemZ18016620…) but there are at least two problems: (1) the current set of RSTS/E 9.[257] and DECnet/E 4.1 tapes are listed for AUD 595/795 for Buy It Now, and (2) I don't have any tape drives older than a TK50. So, should this auction lapse, and in the off chance that I can obtain just the DECnet/E tape, I was wondering if anyone here (1) has a 1600 BPI tape drive with which they can image a tape or two, and (2) lives in Australia. Of course, if anyone already has a copy of DECnet/E that they're willing to share, I'd appreciate that even more as the seller doesn't make any guarantees about his tapes' quality or usability. Many thanks in advance, Pete