I didn't want to volunteer him, since he does this both as a courtesy for fellow hobbyists and as a business for customers. He says he's got a several month backlog of handling his customer's needs, so the hobby-courtesy work is even more way behind. Likely, you'd have to just send him the tape and wait a year or so before he'll be able to get around to it. But I'm sure you've seen Tim Shoppa posting here before, and he's one of the ones I know about. The guy I sent my 9-track to is having someone else do it, and he didn't specify, so it's possible he's sent it to Tim. Meanwhile, as a possible hedge against this coming up in the future, I'll be keeping an eye out for a 7-track drive, one that's of sufficiently-late manufacture that it can be made workable again. May have to design a custom interface, but that's just work... Regards, -dq