> Are there any PUT tape with service for non-copyright > software in there. COul they be released. > I only as the VM/370R6 we have is at (I think) L620 > but the latest tape we have is 616....
There are service tapes for early releases of VM/370 in the collection, but I'd need written permission from IBM to give them to you (or anyone, for that matter). Same with TSS source and object, etc, etc. All I have permission to do at the moment is preserve anything that's still readable and transfer it to easier-to-handle media (currently AWSTAPE files on CD). Old as these tapes are, they're still covered by the IBM Customer Agreement, and worse yet, somebody ELSE's (ie, Princeton University) customer agreement. It's not my decision to make, and I doubt that the Princeton board of regents is interested in allowing me to decide for them (or quite frankly, whether they would even understand the question). You could lobby the IBM archivist, though -- the more voices, the more likely they might be to allow it. Sorry, -- db
