HP 80 Series Software

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri May 30 15:56:00 2003

At 01:38 PM 5/30/03 -0700, you wrote:
>> 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

  Erik,

   Sure. Send them to me after you're finished with your move. I'll copy
them (if they can be copied) and return them to you along with a copy of
the SW on disks.

    Joe
Received on Fri May 30 2003 - 15:56:00 BST