30 May
2003
30 May
'03
8:38 a.m.
As you've probably already found out, the
HP-85 drives are mostly
in-operable by now. The tapes also have some serious failures with
age.
I've managed to fix a few drives and I been able
to read SOME of the
tapes.
But I found that the tapes usually fail COMPLETELY
after a few uses.
(Again
see the archives) For several years I tried to get
people to send me
whatever tapes they had so that I could copy them to disk and
preserve the
SW but no one cooperated so I've given up.
I've got an HP 85 with a bad tape drive but with dozens of tapes. I'd
be happy to lend those to you for archiving, etc.
Right now they are in storage pending me moving into a new home (I
hope), but once I recover them I'll get in touch with you if you're
willing to set up to copy these.
Erik Klein
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