> As far as I can recall, DB, the cleaning fluid in the nice IBM pint > cans, was nothing more than denatured alcohol. IBM packaged it for those > shops that had an "all-blue" mandate from management as far as IT > equipment went....:-)
OK. Isopropyl alcohol is easy to come by. > Thanks, too, for doing this recovery work.....are you going to put the > recovered tape files out anyplace for others to access? That's a bit more complex. I can't redistribute the IBM licensed stuff, obviously, and a lot of the more interesting historical stuff is either IBM-originated, or belongs to various people individually and collectively, some of which are no longer with us, so it's hard to get their permission. I plan to publish at least the tape maps of the few readable volumes in the whole mess (about 1 tape in 15 are actually readable so far). I doubt I'll be able to provide the content unless the IBM archivist tells me in writing that they really don't care about 30+ year old PUT tapes any more. David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates
