18 Oct
2016
18 Oct
'16
5:48 p.m.
Don't store ur tapes in a damp basement will help with sticky shed
syndrom... Keep em dry a food dehydrator helps...
On Oct 18, 2016 7:46 PM, "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 10/18/16 5:37 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
I think they're useful to folks who have drives
that can use them, and
they aren't nearly as fragile as QIC or helical scan drives (4mm, 8mm)
of a similar age.
The drives, maybe, but the tape sheds like nuts.
19 Oct
19 Oct
12:46 a.m.
From a preservation perspective the best option would
be to list the tape
labels. I have a friend with an extensive backup collection not
yet on
bitsavers who could identify if anything I'd unique. You might find there
are only a couple not yet archived.
Thanks Mark
On 19 Oct 2016 01:48, "Adrian Stoness" <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
Don't store ur tapes in a damp basement will help
with sticky shed
syndrom... Keep em dry a food dehydrator helps...
On Oct 18, 2016 7:46 PM, "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 10/18/16 5:37 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
I think they're useful to folks who have
drives that can use them, and
they aren't nearly as fragile as QIC or helical scan drives (4mm, 8mm)
of a similar age.
The drives, maybe, but the tape sheds like nuts.
10:29 a.m.
On 19/10/16 08:46, Mark Wickens wrote:
I looked under /bits/DEC but I don't see a lot . Is there a stash I'm
not seeing?
I suppose I should get around to archiving my TK50s. Is there a standard
way of doing this and what metadata should one record?
Antonio
--
Antonio Carlini
arcarlini at iee.org
From a
preservation perspective the best option would be to list the tape
labels. I have a
friend with an extensive backup collection not yet on
bitsavers who could identify if anything I'd unique. You might find there
are only a couple not yet archived.
Thanks Mark
10:45 a.m.
I have the following 12 TK50 tape cartridges with original DEC labels on them:
AQ-FP13C-BN MICROVMS V4.4 FULL BIN TK50 (2 copies)
AQ-FY80B-BN MICROVMS V4.4 BIN TK50 MANDATORY UPDATE (2 copies)
AQ-FP15C-BN MICROVMS V4.4 NET END/N TK50
AQ-JP22F-BE VMS V5.4 BIN TK50 1/2
AQ-LC99C-BE VMS V5.4 BIN TK50 2/2
AQ-NJ58B-BE VMS V5.4 BIN TK50 WARRANTY MANDATORY UPDATE
AQ-LX08H-BE VMS V5.4-1 BIN TK50
AW-FT37D-BN MICROVMS/WS V3.1 BIN TK50
AQ-FP58A-BN MICROVMS LIC KEY TK50 1-8
AQ-FP86C-BN VAX FORTRAN V4.4 BIN TK50 FORT044 FORT
Are there already images of these tapes archived somewhere available
on the net? I wouldn't mind having images of these tapes but don't
really want to try to read them myself, if they are still currently
readable.
10:52 a.m.
On 10/19/16 10:29 AM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
On 19/10/16 08:46, Mark Wickens wrote:
I looked under /bits/DEC but I don't see a lot . Is there a stash I'm not
seeing?
I have been hesitant to put much VMS software up since it was (is) still a supported
product. I don't know if the situation has changed for VAX VMS.
There are other sites that have put tapes up, though.
From a
preservation perspective the best option would be to list the tape
labels. I have a
friend with an extensive backup collection not yet on
bitsavers who could identify if anything I'd unique. You might find there
are only a couple not yet archived.
Thanks Mark
2:21 p.m.
I've long since lost track of the OP for this thread, but I could use a
few TK70 scratch tapes.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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