[rescue] Looking for sun4 SunOS4 QIC tapes

[Plamen Mihaylov]

I already made dumps with dd, you can download the files from
m88k.com/4.0.3+4.1.1.7z

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Liles <blah at spilk.org> wrote:

> Awesome... could I convince you to dump copies of them, or perhaps send the
> tapes if you can't? I think the old 'copytape' program would preserve the
> structure of the tapes, but maybe there is a better way. I have a QIC-150
> drive hooked up to a SPARCstation IPC that should be able to read them.
> Assuming the tensioning belt hasn't disintegrated in them...
>
> Willing to pay reasonable costs for the tapes of course.
>
> -a.
>
>
> > On Aug 27, 2017, at 7:23 AM, Plamen Mihaylov <plamenspam at afterpeople.com
> >
> wrote:
> >
> > I have 4.0.3c and 4.1.1 tapes for sun4c.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 4:23 AM, Andrew Liles <blah at spilk.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Looking specifically for the 2x QIC-24 SunOS 4.0.3c sun4c SUNBIN tapes
> but
> >> any
> >> tapes relevant to the SunOS 4.0 - 4.1.4 era for SPARC would be nice to
> >> have.
> >> Were tape distros made for sun4m machines?
> >>
> >> Ib m sure many of these tapes are degrading at this point and Ib m not
> >> seeing a whole lot of preservation of pre-Solaris SunOS releases for
> SPARC
> >> around - maybe Ib m mistaken! Also seemingly hard to locate are any of
> the
> >> optional distribution tapes for SunOS4 sun4 - like OpenWindows 1.0, etc.
> >>
> >> sun3arc.org <http://sun3arc.org/> seems to be a great source for
> 68k-era
> >> machines but havenb t found an equivalent for sun4[emc]
> >>
> >> Would be happy with the physical tapes themselves or dumps of the
> contents.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> -a.
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