<div dir="auto">Could you take better photos of the labels.</div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif">Thanks</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 19:53, Andrew Ferguson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>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!!).</div><div><br></div><div>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!)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mmthayhv0" alt="sun-tapes.jpg" style="width:956px;max-width:100%"><br><br></div></div>
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