On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Norm Aleks wrote: Boy, you must *really* want a System/34 to move it all that way. Then again, I suppose they're getting pretty hard to find. The one I have is the only one I've seen in person since I started collecting about 10 years ago. Yes, you need to park the drives. (Although more large drives that I can think of require manual parking/locking than do it automagically, so I can see where that's an IBM thing...) It's not hard, at least for the common drive used (that I can't remember the size of at the moment- it's an 8" drive, my unit has 4 of them). All you need is a long, fairly wide straight-blade screwdriver. My drives have a (yellow?) sticker showing exactly what to do. You stick it into a hole and give a slightly more than quarter turn in the direction it'll turn. If these directions are too vague (can you tell I haven't been inside the S/34 lately?) I can take some pictures and put them up on the Web. If your unit has the magazine feed floppy drive, you should probably remove the disks from it. Keep in mind, it holds 23 disks. (2 10-disk magazines plus 3 loose in the little wire racks) Richard Schauer rws(a)ripco.com