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

[silcreval]

Hi Andrew

Definitely worth preserving. The early 68020 / 68030 would be very welcome.

If there is no-one able to do it for you I can image them - but I imagine there will be people more local to you.

Ian

> On 16 Mar 2026, at 17:51, Andrew Ferguson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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