<> The tower actually *boots* from the tape during install! Is that <> crazy or what? < <What's strange about that? My old Zilog S8000 (Z8001 processor) does the <same. And most minis can boot from their tape drvies. It's a standard way <boot real machines. Bigtime PDP-11s (rsts, RSX-11 and even RT on tape), vaxen all can. I've booted CPM from paper tape! Allison