HP 2647A BASIC/AUTOPLOT47 and DEMO tape preservation

smecc would like a tape also! neat! In a message dated 3/7/2017 1:08:12 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: 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 wrote: 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. there. Are these the same as (i.e., can be created from) the floppy images available on hpmuseum.net? 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. these tapes and make the images available to the community in a useful format?