In a delightful coincidence today, I picked up a stack of a half-dozen nine-tracks for $1. Their labels indicate they belonged to my former boss at a department at the UW-Madison, and one was even labelled with the name of a series of BASIC programs I worked on circa 1983, even though the tapes are dated 1986. It's labelled "DOS format 1600 bpi 9tr formatted ASCII 256 b/record". It's a Memorex 6250 bpi tape. I'd love to dump the files to contemporary media. I have no idea what sort of compensation would be appropriate. For starters, I'd be glad to give five of the six. Oh, I know, nine-track tapes are $1 per Dumpster. How about a few dozen organic farm eggs from Wisconsin chickens? OK, maybe cash. - John