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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:02:32 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>
Cc:        "'Alexander Sadovski'" <alexsad@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about Tape =?utf-8?Q?services?= =?utf-8?B?4oCP?=
Message-ID:  <20160721190232.GA2491@c720-r292778-amd64.fritz.box>
In-Reply-To: <00ed01d1e2a8$85450090$8fcf01b0$@shaw.ca>
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El día Wednesday, July 20, 2016 a las 11:02:37AM -0600, Dale Scott escribió:

> http://tapeconversions.com/
> 
> I used their services in 2006 to get the data off a number of QIC
> cartridges. I couriered the cartridges and they emailed back zip files (the
> tapes arrived later). I was very pleased with the promptness and cost (at
> the time US$35/cartridge, plus return shipping cost).

It's a bit off-topic, even off-thread: I own an old 9 track tape from
the years 80' which should still contain a bootable Amdahl UTS system, an UNIX
for IBM compatible mainframes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS
Any chance to boot from this somewhere nowadays?

	matthias
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"Wer übersieht, dass wir uns den anderen weggenommen haben und sie uns wiederhaben wollen,
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dieser Kämpfe bestehen." Hermann Kant in jW 1.10.1989



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