I want to very publicly thank Byron for something very kind that he did with the Commodore Datasette drives he was selling at VCF East Consignment this past weekend. Something that he didn't really have to do. He included program tapes with them. At the fall swap meet, I purchased my first C64 along with a Datasette drive from Steve's basement. But because I didn't have a new C64 power brick to go with it (and because the Datasette also broke), I was unable to do anything with it. This past weekend, I purchased one of Byron's Datasettes and a new PSU from one of the vendors. But because I didn't have a 1541 disk drive (or any real experience with C64s), I wouldn't have had any programs to run with it... except that Byron included two cassette tapes in with the drive. I've been exploring one of the two tapes, which seems to contain a large number of programs taken from Creative Computing and Compute!'s Gazette. So now I can get going with my first C64 without having to delve into advanced topics such as "How can I get a program from the Internet onto this thing", or "Oh crap I need to buy a 1541 now". So thank you Byron, for being extremely conscientious with your Datasettes. It was very thoughtful, and while it didn't cost you much it made a world of difference to me. -- Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them or She/Her Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM-Poughkeepsie http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger