New, unused Original Amiga Unix install tapes - PIC

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Discuss..

[Matt_H]

Beta 3J? I think that's a new discovery...

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Matt_H wrote:
Beta 3J? I think that's a new discovery...

I thought so too, rare as hens teeth.

[downix]

I think I have a tape drive able to read those.

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downix wrote:
I think I have a tape drive able to read those.

I do to atm :-D

[da9000]

Sweet! Get those tape drives warmed up!

[amigadave]

I think Red should make some copies of those tapes.  I wouldn't necessarily want to buy or use Amiga Unix on a daily basis, but I wouldn't mind loading and seeing what it looks like on my A3000UX desktop.

Edit:  I have a tape drive in another Amiga of mine.

[Zac67]

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.

[mdivancic]

amigadave wrote:
I think Red should make some copies of those tapes.  I wouldn't necessarily want to buy or use Amiga Unix on a daily basis, but I wouldn't mind loading and seeing what it looks like on my A3000UX desktop.

Edit:  I have a tape drive in another Amiga of mine.

I agree with Dave! Copies must be made to protect the data. They can be posted here:

http://www.amigaunix.com/tiki-index.php

[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!

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da9000 wrote:
Sweet! Get those tape drives warmed up!

At the moment I only have an A1200 setup (IDE). I just got an A2000, but I don't have a scsi card.. Hmm.. I do have a few a500s and a dataflyer, but I don't know if it will have the horsepower..

I'll work it out..

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Tahoe wrote:
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...

Check your PM, I may be able to donate one for your site.

[Failure]

...and that was the kick in the pants I needed to fix the file galleries and stuff.  :-)  I'm in the process of moving so it kinda slipped off the radar.

Very cool.

[da9000]

@Failure:

How can your Amix uptime (in your avatar screenshot) be 9697 days dude? That's like 26 years. Amix, heck, the Amiga even, wasn't born still! ;-)