I'm wondering if anyone actually *bought* these QDDs, every one I see including my own are brand new and have a brand new system tape; people try and sell 'em on epay as 'wow' etc :) Mine's badged as 'Entrepo' and I'm pretty sure it's a single drive version of the Rotronics 'Wafadrive' that was available for the Speccy and C64. That one was built round a BSR tape mechanism (the same people that made vinyl turntables in the 70s). I don't think it can be classed as a stringy floppy though, since that accolade used to belong to (in the UK anyway) a device called the 'Phloopy' which was a plastic case similar to, but bigger than, the Sinclair Microdrive but instead of a neverending reel of tape it just had the tape 'loose' inside the cart..... cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans