The Question isn't as stupid as it sounds on first sight. Back in the ol' days (Old Guys, arn't we ?) I had some problems with high quality tapes in the usual cheap cassette drives/recorders - Tape and head have to be in an aprobiate range - so you can't just use any material. Now, I hasn't been a problem back then, since most times I also did by the ceapest of the ceap - only when in urgend need (lets say a weeks hack without saving, and no other cassette available I took high quality material - some of my old music recordings still have data inbetween - and of course I got problems ... (once I even _bought_ a cassete at DM 20 (~USD8 at this time ~1980), since the shop had no cheap ones (usualy DM 1-3)). So, if you want to use modern cassetes, best practice would be to use an acording actual recording device - no problem when using computers with standard connectors, while for a Como, you might need to build some cables and use an original C2N as hook up. For old casettes I would suggest _not_ to buy them - Computer cassetes have been cheap materials, in most case they have been stored under poor conditions and as a result, the material may be already damaged. Gruss h. -- Stimm gegen SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/de/ Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/en/ Votez contre le SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/fr/ Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK