Excellent... A bit offtopic, but the picture of your lab applefreak is AWESOME!!! I'll have to post pics of my kindred lab to yours sometime soon once I get the cubicle area finished and the rest of the basement sorted.

My question to you is?

I see you have a Tape 40SC there on your storage shelf? Do you have any experience repairing/replacing out the gumming/disintegrating rubber drive wheels in those? I have about 8 of them and all of them would easily destroy the few tapes I have left if I even attempted to use them.

I LOVED those drives since they were fully block addressable, not just linear reads. When my HD died in college back in the early 90's I used to boot my IIGS off the tape drive to System 6.01 IIGS.. Took 35 minutes but it worked and saved a few of my term papers that week.