<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 21:35, Rob Craig via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Are those type of tapes still able to be read without breaking? I was trying to read some QIC 2GB tapes for an AS/400 and they just break on read. The same for tapes for a HP 9000. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You'd likely want to check and possibly repair the tension band - <a href="https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/qic-tape-cartridge-belt-replacement-youtube-video.47162/">see here for more</a>. So this wouldn't be a straightforward process.</div><div>Andrew</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> On 16 Mar 2026, at 22:26, silcreval via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Andrew<br>
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> Definitely worth preserving. The early 68020 / 68030 would be very welcome.<br>
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> If there is no-one able to do it for you I can image them - but I imagine there will be people more local to you.<br>
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> Ian<br>
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>> On 16 Mar 2026, at 17:51, Andrew Ferguson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi all,<br>
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>> Last week I rescued a bunch of computing equipment and old media from a store-room clearout at my university. I'm trying to find appropriate homes for all of the hardware (with one or two exceptions, I don't plan to keep any of it - no space!!).<br>
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>> Other than a Datacube Max-box (which I believe(?) may contain an early VMEbus-based Sun system) there's no Sun hardware, but there are quite a few Sun-branded QIC tapes that I'm pretty sure would have been used with the Datacube. I've attached a picture to this email of some of them (hoping the attachment will come through!)<br>
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>> What I want to figure out is - is the software on these tapes preserved or not? i.e. how concerned should I be about ensuring that they go to a place that will try to recover them? I've been speaking to a couple of places about transferring all the media and equipment, and if these tapes are "significant" in any way I can alert them of this.<br>
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>> Thanks!<br>
>> Andrew<br>
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>> <sun-tapes.jpg><br>
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