Dave: Interesting. I guess that I'll stop by Staples on the way home and pick up a bottle of the whiteboard cleaner. I did ask the donator what the story was with the blacked-out logo but I haven't heard from him yet. If he used a Sharpie marker, I'm not sure that I can get that off without damaging the plastic. Maybe WD40? Like I mentioned, Todd Fischer is selling new computer-generated masks rather than the photomasks used originally. He claims that the graphics are sharper and clearer than the original. I would keep the original photomask in storage anyway. Seeing the logo is more important to me than keeping the mask vintage. Rich ============================= Richard A. Cini, Jr. Director Wachovia Capital Finance 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 W: 212-545-4402 F: 212-545-4589 -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Dunfield Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:23 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: IMSAI Score update/Spare BYTEs/Got an Altair too I was afraid of that ... Although it's good that you can get a replacement, keeping it all original has merit as well - depending on the marker used, you might be able to carefully remove it. Try a Q-tip with some whiteboard cleaner and move up to stronger solutions as required. Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html