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

[babydr DBA James W. Laferriere via TUHS]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2026, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> 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.

 	Did someone here grab this ???

https://www.ebay.com/itm/257380939623

 	Cuase it is sold now ,  But shows '0'(Zero) bids .

 		Tia , JimL
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