Quothe Al Kossow, from writings of Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:50:56PM -0700: Alas, only a small percentage of it... most of it is stored on multiple floppies and tapes. Not good for long-term storage, I'll be the first to admit, but I've been unable to do otherwise thus far, but now, with all of the inexpensive hard drives, it would be much less expensive to do so than it would have been several years ago. My PERQs have been somewhat inaccessible, but I'm finishing up some rearranging that will allow me to get to them more easily, so if I can get one of them working, I can at least try to clone you a working POS and Accent distribution. Wow, you're in for some fun if you've never installed POS on a hard drive before! You'll get to play with all of the neat toys like scavenger, etc. and spend many, many, hours getting POS installed (Accent is easier, but you'll need to use POS to format the hard drive, etc.) If I can get things working again, then I can help you; I'm just hoping that my POS dist. tapes are still good, but if my hard drive is ok, I can just copy that onto a tape (once I get the cable to the tape drive repaired and ascertain that the tape drive, and the tape controller board I built, still work) and create boot and run floppies for you. Unfortunately, I pulled the wires loose to the connector to my PERQ's tape drive while moving the PERQs. I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to do all this, since you've made some good steps forward towards archiving software from PERQ tapes (thanks!). -- Copyright (C) 2004 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved | My VAX | an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & www.rddavis.org | runs VMS & | her other creatures, using dogma to justify such 410-744-4900 | doesn't crash!| beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.