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

[Alan Perry]

I have a big box of Sun QIC tapes to image as well. I could do these as 
well. I have a couple different variety of replacement bands. Located in 
the Seattle area.

alan

On 3/16/26 2:26 PM, silcreval via rescue wrote:
> 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
>>
>> <sun-tapes.jpg>
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