From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!9212mhm Newsgroups: net.micro.zx Title: Re: LOAD help needed Article-I.D.: houxa.150 Posted: Thu Jan 20 10:28:40 1983 Received: Sun Jan 23 03:56:32 1983 References: sentry1.1385 I am a Timex Sinclair 1000 user (just about a zx81) and have experienced all of the problems that you mention on two different occasions and traced the problems to two different problems: first, I suggest you make sure that you are using a high quality tape in your recorder - I had a *lot* of trouble with some cheap Radio Shack tapes, but no trouble with some good Memorex tapes. Secondly, I had your problems when I had a bad 16k RAM expansion pack - no, I do not understand why that should be a problem, but it definitely was (verified at the store I bought the RAM pack from, with a variety of systems, tapes, and tape recorders). Good luck with your problem. Mark H. Mortensen Bell Labs - Holmdel, NJ (201) 949-1893