HP 80 Series Software

From: Erik Klein <classiccmp_at_vintage-computer.com>
Date: Fri May 30 15:38:01 2003

> As you've probably already found out, the HP-85 drives are mostly
> in-operable by now. The tapes also have some serious failures with
age.
> I've managed to fix a few drives and I been able to read SOME of the
tapes.
> But I found that the tapes usually fail COMPLETELY after a few uses.
(Again
> see the archives) For several years I tried to get people to send me
> whatever tapes they had so that I could copy them to disk and
preserve the
> SW but no one cooperated so I've given up.
 
I've got an HP 85 with a bad tape drive but with dozens of tapes. I'd
be happy to lend those to you for archiving, etc.

Right now they are in storage pending me moving into a new home (I
hope), but once I recover them I'll get in touch with you if you're
willing to set up to copy these.

    Erik Klein
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