[rescue] Replacement front panel for Sun X680A (HP 88780) tape drive?

Paul Weissmann paul at doorslam.net
Fri Dec 13 16:03:40 CST 2002


Skeezics Boondoggle [skeezics at q7.com] wrote:

[...]

> I won the X680A for $2.95.  Three bucks for a compact 9-track autoloader 
> with a SCSI interface - something I've wanted for YEARS, because my old 
> employer has a huge library of cool old tapes that I wanted to rescue.  
> Complete archives of comp.unix-wizards from the early 1980s!  Some very 
> nifty source tapes of old Mach releases, HP-UX, work on the HP-PA port of 
> Chorus, etc.  

Sorry I can't help you w/ the tape drive, but, if you ever get to
archive the HP-PA associated things, I'd be VERY interested in having
a look at them.

	Thanks.



	- paul



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