---snip--- Hi Kevin I'm sure if you needed an archived image zipped before you could use it and you requested it that way, Sellam could provide it in that format for you ;) That doesn't mean he must store it that way. Why it is only useable in zipped form I don't really understand but if that is what you NEED for your "own use", that is what you can get. It doesn't restrict how Sellam stores the image. It is hard to say what piece of information will be of interest to someone 2000 years from now. It may be a Kaypro that is being researched or it might just be that they wanted to know what the typical storage media size was. If the information was zipped first, they'd need to first recognize that it was zipped. They'd then need to create a working unzipper before they could answer either question. Finding an unzipped source might be just as hard. I use zipped files for my personal archive but then I know who is going to look at it. I'd even expect to send an image to Sellam as a zipped file. For the purpose he has in mind, I'm sure he'd unzip it. Dwight