So you've had trouble getting 8" drives, eh . . . I've had trouble getting RID of most of mine, though I'm about there now. I still have a few DSDD types which I may use myself in the course of reconstructing my old S-100 boxes. A goodly share of my life's work has been designing bridge controllers of various sorts. SCSI<=>MIL STD 1553 is one you won't see often. I had to cook that one up when it turned out that a fellow contractor had claimed the had a 1553-interfaced WORM drive, when they really didn't. They did the full pitch and everything, and to our customer (NASA). They produced documents, part numbers, etc, yet when I started pressing for details, they buckled. It turned out that all they had was an objective spec. Our customer had based a whole chain of requirements on that pitch and the associated claims and passed them to us as requirements. My own interest in bridge controllers has been as tools. As you may have noticed, I have a number of hard/floppy controller bridges, but only a few different types. My goal is to be able to get hardware running in a hurry and bridge controllers are only helpful if you don't have to write new driver software for each application. The WD100x series was really handy for this, since once I had built a processor<=>WD100x interface cable adapter, the only thing that changed was drive parameters and controller address block. One of these days I'll up a SASI adapter as well, probably based on the code and instruction set for the XEBEC controller, since their code is published. There's code for an S-100 adapter example published in the ADAPTEC ACB4000 bridge controller series manual, but I've never tried that one out because I've heard it's compatible with the ADAPTEC boards but neither SCSI nor SASI. I guess you might say I tend to collect things that are "nearly" ready to use, though they seldom see any use. Is that screwy? Dick -----Original Message----- From: jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com &lt;jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com&gt; To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers &lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt; Date: Friday, November 26, 1999 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Whats the screwiest thing you collect?