[Info-vax] Old storage technologies

[Dave McGuire]

On 9/25/23 21:04, John Reagan wrote:
>> Yes, we have them. The TU58 drives are basically unusable now,
>> unfortunately. First, the rollers turn to goo...that's easily
>> repairable, but now the tapes themselves have problems, due to the
>> internal drive belts (within the tape cartridges) failing. It's very
>> unfortunate.
>>
>> The TU56 drives and tapes, though, with minor maintenance, work fine.
>
> I have some TU58s still in their shrinkwrap.  Are they still good?

   It's possible, but I wouldn't count on it.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
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