24 Mar
2014
24 Mar
'14
2:51 p.m.
On 24/03/2014 21:23, Liam Proven wrote:
On 24 March 2014 21:23, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
If no one else wants these, and the data is held elsewhere, I would
like them to shown at MOSI when we get folks round the computer gallery.
We don't currently have any drives but it would be nice to have a mag
tape to compare with paper tape...
Dave
Also on offer for nothing - please save them from
being thrown away!
Description from the old ended listing:
Yeah, thanks for that, Gmail.
Set of 4 vintage 9-track tapes, believed to be from DEC VAX systems
There are four of these. Three are labelled "1600bpi" so I am guessing
that is probably the format of all of them.
Two have labels indicating that these are original software
distribution media from Texas Instruments. Label text included below.
One is unlabelled and one has a hand-written Software Intelligencer
label.
I cannot guarantee that hese media are good and working. I don't have
a 9-track drive and never have had - these were left to me by a sadly
now-dead friend so I can't ask her, either.
They have been stored in a cool dry place.
All are in protective covers; one is in a canister as well.
2 have typed labels:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
TMS32010 VAX CROSSWARE PACKAGE REL 2.3
1600BPI, FORMAT = VAX/VMS 3.0; BACKUP
LABEL = ASM3, SAVESET=ASM3.BCK, LINKER.BCK
Copyright 1983 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LTD
&
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
TMS32010 SIMULATOR REL 1.6
1600BPI, FORMAT = VAX/VMS 3.0 BACKUP
LABEL = SIM4320 SAVESET=SIM320.BCK
TMDS32402110-08 03/13/86
Copyright 1983 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LTD
The handwritten one says, on a printed SOFTWARE INTELLIGENCE label:
[illegible, possibly 3011 or 5011]
1600bpi
RABBIT-4 V1-0
BACKUPSAVESETS: SELECT.BCK
R4.BCK