<happy dance> we're getting a drum store! </happy dance> Just been offered a late 1960's BCL Susie accounting machine - delay line accumulator and all the usual suspects (card reader, tape reader / writer etc.). Best thing being that it has a 64 track drum - as you know I've been after a machine with a drum for the museum for some time now. Sounds like it's been in a shed for the last ten years though so the owner's checking what kind of state it's in. Experience is that machines of that era survive moisture remarkably well though, so fingers crossed. Moving it's going to be interesting. :-) cheers Jules -- "We've had a lot of loonies around this place, but you're the first one who thought the sunrise was made out of stale beer. Now are you going to pick up your flute and leave, or shall I part your hair with this crowbar?"