I should report that I actually tracked down the "agency" in charge of supporting this archaic product! Maynard bought Archive (or vice versa), Conner bought Maynard, and Seagate bought Conner. Seagate had no knowledge of the FT60. I was able, however, to find a bunch of old phone numbers for all the parties involved. I started calling them, expecting to find that they were long ago disconnected. Lo and behold, the first number (for Archive) was answer by some department deep in the bowels of Seagate tech support. They said they didn't have any knowledge of the FT60, but would "check around with a few old timers" to see if anyone had any ideas. The result was a referral to a place called TSSI at 800-286-0651 who handles support for the old hardware (but not software). Once I got across what I was trying to find, they were able to identify the board and find a several page blurb about it. The information they supplied enabled me to get the tape drive to work on an old PC/XT! The critical factor was that one set of jumpers was the COMPLEMENT of what you would normally expect. Larry can probably get the same source to help him out, because his card is undoubtedly in the same series (SC4xx), but wasn't detailed in the info I got. I guess the moral is, don't give up. Ask around, and try all the old phone numbers. Something might pay off. I would still like to find any updated software for the board/drive I have, especially a library (C or Pascal) that I can use to do raw reads/writes of the tape. I'll keep trying the phone numbers, right! Dave Lawrence Walker wrote: