Tony,
IBM Sterling Forest used to have tape drives dating back to the stone age for just this purpose. No idea what the process is to use them, if indeed they still exist. Is a 40-year-old tape going to be physically readable? I have no idea, but wonder. I have some 30-year-plus tapes in the basement, but hope not to ever care (and as time marches on, the odds of course reduce.) ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN