[rescue] Looking for sun4 SunOS4 QIC tapes

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Richard

Be very careful with those old Qic drives, the main capstan rubber goes gooey
on a large number and wrecks the tape, please check with a blank tape before
loading a disti copy.

Peter

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> On 27 Aug 2017, at 11:13, Richard <ejb at trick-1.net> wrote:
>
> Hi There
>
> So I have original tapes as follows and also a tape drive to read them
> (may need some maint as I haven't used it in 15 years). tapes look
> visually OK but I think the last time I booted a system or used one
> would have been about 1998...
>
> SunOS 4.0.3 export SPARC part number 700-2154-10 Rev A. QIC24/9 tape 1
> boot and tape 2 of 2
> 1.1 News SUNBIN Sun2 Sun3 tar format QIC24 part number 700-1603-10 Rev A
> tape 1 of 1
> SunOS 4.0.3 export 68030 part number 700-2152-10 rev A QIC24/9 tape 1
> boot and tape 2 of 2
> SunOS 4.0 export 68020 part numbe r700-1610-10 Rev A QIC24/9 tape1 boot
> and tape 2 of 2
> SunOS 4.0.1 export 68020 part number 700-2016-11 Rev A tape 1 of 1
> 1.0 OpenWindows (BETA 2) Sun-3 tar format QIC24 partnumber 700-2102-06
> Rev 50
> FrameMaker Version 3.0 for Sun 3/Sun4/Sun i386 SunOS 3.0 or greater
> SunOS for the 386i including 4.0.2 upgrade kit and hareare diagnostic
> disks
>
> unfortunatley I no longer have my 3/50,3/60,3/110,3/260,3/330 or 4/260
> to test them on but I could at least create CPIO images if needed....but
> I might have to restore a drive first
>
> no promises but if you are in need please let me know
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>> On Sun, 27 Aug 2017, at 11:23 AM, Andrew Liles wrote:
>> Looking specifically for the 2x QIC-24 SunOS 4.0.3c sun4c SUNBIN tapes
>> but any
>> tapes relevant to the SunOS 4.0 - 4.1.4 era for SPARC would be nice to
>> have.
>> Were tape distros made for sun4m machines?
>>
>> Ibm sure many of these tapes are degrading at this point and Ibm not
>> seeing a whole lot of preservation of pre-Solaris SunOS releases for
>> SPARC
>> around - maybe Ibm mistaken! Also seemingly hard to locate are any of
>> the
>> optional distribution tapes for SunOS4 sun4 - like OpenWindows 1.0, etc.
>>
>> sun3arc.org <http://sun3arc.org/> seems to be a great source for 68k-era
>> machines but havenbt found an equivalent for sun4[emc]
>>
>> Would be happy with the physical tapes themselves or dumps of the
>> contents.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -a.
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