[rescue] How well-preserved are these software tapes?

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hi all,

Last week I rescued a bunch of computing equipment and old media from a
store-room clearout at my university. I'm trying to find appropriate homes
for all of the hardware (with one or two exceptions, I don't plan to keep
any of it - no space!!).

Other than a Datacube Max-box (which I believe(?) may contain an early
VMEbus-based Sun system) there's no Sun hardware, but there are quite a few
Sun-branded QIC tapes that I'm pretty sure would have been used with the
Datacube. I've attached a picture to this email of some of them (hoping the
attachment will come through!)

What I want to figure out is - is the software on these tapes preserved or
not? i.e. how concerned should I be about ensuring that they go to a place
that will try to recover them? I've been speaking to a couple of places
about transferring all the media and equipment, and if these tapes are
"significant" in any way I can alert them of this.

Thanks!
Andrew

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