[TUHS] Community Fund Re: AT&T UNIX VHS Backup

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Thursday, March 5th, 2026 at 11:38, Jason T via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2026, 12:20 segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I wanted to test the waters to see how folks would feel about
> > crowdsourcing some funding for a preservation effort.  I'm fully prepared
> > to fund this myself but wanted to share:
> >
> 
> >
> >
> > Is the current bid on that item yours?
> 
> The seller has a lot of AT&T listings, including a few other video tape
> sets. I don't know what makes up the entire library (not sure if anyone
> does).
> 
> A good strategy might be to convince him to bundle all of the tape sets for
> a much lower price.
> 
> J
> 

Hah, I should pay more attention.  Turns out this is someone I helped label some AT&T terminals properly (they originally had a 55C terminal listed as a 3B1 since it was in a box with a bunch 3B1 docs).

Given that history they might be willing to negotiate with me...I'll shoot them a message.

- Matt G.