I contacted John Young today, to see if he has contact details for the elusive Mark Roll. Mark doesn't work at Sony anymore, unfortunately, but... John has spoken to Mark about this a couple of days ago, and Mark was ok! John will pass this (& other?) info along to the project in a couple of day...

I might have access to a DAT player, in Utrecht. I probably won't be in the position to send it to you. It's from an office next to mine, and I think the guys working there won't mind if we used it. So perhaps you can come to utrecht, digitize it, and then take it home with you again. I've emailed h...