6 Mar
2017
6 Mar
'17
4:12 p.m.
Hello,
I have a couple of HP 2647A tapes:? BASCI/AUTOPLOT47 and DEMO.?? They look to be in good
condition.? I have had them in a climate controlled lab since acquiring them as part of a
sizeable lot of HP tapes last year.
I am curious if there are any known good copies of these tapes out there.?? Are these the
same as (i.e., can be created from) the floppy images available on hpmuseum.net?
If these are not already archived, I would be interested in preserving them.? I realize
that reading tapes this old may be a "one-shot only" process, and I don't
have the expertise or equipment to be able to archive these tapes.
Is there anyone on this list with the interest and ability to archive these tapes and make
the images available to the community in a useful format?
Thanks,
Dave
7 Mar
7 Mar
3:06 a.m.
Dave,
I am interested. I have an HP 2647 with two restored tape drives, and have been looking
for this exact tape set. I have some "new" Athana tapes. Step 1 would be to copy
them to a new Athana master tape. Then step to could be to make copies available to the
group. Step 3 would be to transfer them to an archive format, but in essence it's
already been done by the hpmuseum (in 5.25" 2647 disc format, LIF I presume?). But I
don't have that rare disc unit and interface card to connect it to the 2647 (if I had,
I could indeed recreate the tapes). That said, I first need to work on step 0, which is
lots of practicing recovering DC100 tapes reliably: baking them, changing the belt,
cleaning the guides... Fortunately I have lots of DC100 tapes that I need to recover
before touching yours. It might take me a couple month to get there. Contact me off list
if you want.
Marc
On Mar 6, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Dave via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello,
I have a couple of HP 2647A tapes: BASCI/AUTOPLOT47 and DEMO. They look to be in good
condition. I have had them in a climate controlled lab since acquiring them as part of a
sizeable lot of HP tapes last year.
I am curious if there are any known good copies of these tapes out there. Are these the
same as (i.e., can be created from) the floppy images available on hpmuseum.net?
If these are not already archived, I would be interested in preserving them. I realize
that reading tapes this old may be a "one-shot only" process, and I don't
have the expertise or equipment to be able to archive these tapes.
Is there anyone on this list with the interest and ability to archive these tapes and
make the images available to the community in a useful format?
Thanks,
Dave
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