[Info-vax] What to do with a bunch of DLTtapes?

Marty mkuhrt at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 12:28:18 EDT 2019


On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 5:15:01 AM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-09-03, Marty wrote:
> > I have around sixty DLTtapes of various densities from TK50 to DLTtape IV I'd like to get rid of.  Problem is none of the E-waste places in the Bay Area will take any magnetic tape items (DLT, 4mm, 8mm, Dat, Reel-to-Reel, etc).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Don't you have a large computer history museum somewhere in the Bay Area ?
> 
> Have you tried asking them if they want the tapes so they can use them
> for any working exhibits which have DLT drives (especially the older
> DLT drives) ?
> 
> Simon.
> 
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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Thanks.  I had not considered that idea.  I donated my complete Gray Wall doc set to them years ago.



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