J. Darren Peterson wrote: If you mean "I have an RA82 and I want some data from it" then I expect a few people will pipe up here. If you mean "I have an RA82 that has suffered a head crash/ been in a fire/etc. ..." then you may have a tough time. About twenty years ago, when the Open University in the UK suffered a computer room fire, DEC shipped the drives over to the factory in Germany to recover the data. Good publicity for DEC; no idea how much - if any - of the data they recovered. Antonio -- Antonio carlini arcarlini at iee.org