he happened to drop that he had a A/UX tape that he
could not read as his tape
drive had "gone goo" It turns out to be A/UX 1.1 (!)
I really hope he didn't discover this by attempting to read the tape. If so,
he now has goo on the tape, and it will be extremely difficult to recover.
FWIW, I have an image of A/UX 1.0, made in the days when the only way to get
a copy was to go over to Bubb Road with a disc and have the original A/UX
group clone it for you.