18 Oct
2016
18 Oct
'16
1:05 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Thomas Dzubin <dzubint at vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
OK, I have a fairly large collection of VAX 4000 and VAXStation 3000
systems which I have fun with and use with both OpenVMS and OpenBSD
over the years....
But, I also have two big rubbermade containers (about half a cubic
meter) filled with TK50 and TK70 tapes which I have never used.
Some are blank, some are the boot & install media for VMS 5.5, some are
software installations, etc. etc.
In the past 25 years that I have had them, I have not once ever used
my TK50 or TK70 drives...I've always either booted off the attached
disks or netbooted.
Should I just throw these things out? Do any collectors consider them
to be valuable? Since it's now 2016 and I think the last TK tapes were
made in the 1990s, I'm getting the urge to toss them.
Opinions? Comments?
Good question, there are those capstans that may not hold their shape,
ruining the tapes. I have a box of RK05s, one has VMS 4.6 label, no idea
if it works. But there it is.
b