On Jun 18, 21:25, Larry Anderson wrote: the I recall being one of the first at the college I worked at then, to own floppies. I remember the price was a few pounds each around 1980, and one local supplier sold them to students one at a time. Unfortunately (for the dealer) not all the staff realised the price was per floppy, not per box-of-10, and a few of us reaped the benefit of that. I still use some of those disks in an Apple ][. did Most of my early computing was done on machines that used punched cards or paper tape, but I didn't often get to keep the cards, and sadly I have no cards or paper tape now. The first thing I carried about regularly was cassette tape (CUTS format). BTW, DECtape is 3/4" not 1" as Jim suggested (slip of the pen?). I still have some, but alas no deck to read it on. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York