[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 280, Issue 7

[Michael Thompson]

You could contact Al Kossow @ Bitsavers to see if he could preserve these
tapes.

aek at bitsavers.org

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM <rescue-request at sunhelp.org> wrote:

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>    1. How well-preserved are these software tapes? (Andrew Ferguson)
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> From: Andrew Ferguson <andrewferguson500 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [rescue] How well-preserved are these software tapes?
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> Hi all,
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> 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!!).
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> 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!)
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
> Andrew
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