CDC/VAX tapes and drives

[Curt at Atari Museum]

I'm going to go out next week to pick up the drives, some racks and such 
as I'm only about an hour away.    I've spoken with the contact there 
and she indicated that there are no OS, System or application tapes, 
just their own proprietary data files which they've long since 
transferred over to PC's as she explained.


Curt


Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
>  Rich> Hi, Erik, We would be interested in this.  We can certainly use
>  Rich> the tape racks and drives; other people's tapes are
>  Rich> problematic, but a bulk eraser fixes that.
>
> Eek.
>
> If those tapes contain things that are worth preserving, that would be
> a bad idea.  I can't tell from the original note whether "CDC/VAX"
> describes the drives, or the tapes, or both.  If it describes the
> tapes, it may well be that they contain stuff that should be preserved
> and hasn't yet been.  There's an active CDC community out there that
> I'm sure would want to take a look at any tapes before they are sent
> to the eraser.
>
>    paul
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