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

[Plamen Mihaylov]

Could you take better photos of the labels.

Thanks

On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 19:53, 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
>
> [image: sun-tapes.jpg]
>
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