New, unused Original Amiga Unix install tapes - PIC

[Tahoe]

Hosting both www.amigaunix.com and owning 3 Amiga Unix machines (two A3000UX's with A3070 tape drives and one A2500UX with internal tape drive) I am obviously very interested in one of those tapes. The 1.1 being not that rare, the Beta 3J could be more rare, but you seem to own two

PM me if you are willing to part with them...

[Tahoe]

Zac67 wrote:
Before putting rare tapes in old - even yet unused - drives: TEST THEM for some time.

I've had the driver roll of a 6250 drive literally desintegrate and spread a lot of goo on the tape. As it seems, there's a friction clutch inside the driver roll and either the resin inside or the rubber can go bad, spreading the gooey and very sticky stuff all over immediately after being put to use. The tape was well beyond cleaning, fortunately there wasn't anything of interest on it.

Yes, same thing happened to me once. The Caliper drives in the A3070 seem to have less issues, but it did happen with a Archive Viper.
The tape is an immediate write-off, the gooey stuff makes the tape snap. Nasty stuff!