To give people some context, I bought 16 3480 drives in Chicago, and field stripped them last week for the heads to use in a tape recovery project. I had asked William when he was out in CA if he knew of any other drives around. More details on the drive conversion as it develops. There is a proof of concept running in Canada, but I am unable to get details, so I'm having to start from scratch (the same as I had to do for the DECtape interface).