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gslick said:
OOH $449.00 seems a lot for some DEC TAPEs, but OTOH it's not like they are making any more of these, as they say.

www.ebay.com/itm/17-Certified-DECtape-Digital-Mag-Tape-Reels-Early-1970-039-s-with-RARE-Storage-Case-/372243559202

I wonder if the buyer was mainly interested in using the tapes, or hoping to recover some interesting files off of them, or if they just wanted to add them to a collection with the bonus storage case.
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Hopefully it's someone who can recover the data. They were almost all early PDP-11 source tapes.
 
gslick said:
OOH $449.00 seems a lot for some DEC TAPEs, but OTOH it's not like they are making any more of these, as they say.

www.ebay.com/itm/17-Certified-DECtape-Digital-Mag-Tape-Reels-Early-1970-039-s-with-RARE-Storage-Case-/372243559202

I wonder if the buyer was mainly interested in using the tapes, or hoping to recover some interesting files off of them, or if they just wanted to add them to a collection with the bonus storage case.
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I don't think I've ever seen one of those cases before. I'm guessing no one is making any more of those either.
 
The auction started at $25 and I don’t see anything of value being there is nothing like a Basic compiler or XXDP or Diagnostics, just looks like copied files. But I must be missing something.
 
Josh said that Living Computers: Museum + Labs bought those tapes, so whatever contents they still contain will be preserved.
 
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