The silly question is how can Fuzzy or I attempt to Help with Donations when a User reports This?

Not to long ago Matt was saying we are out of DLT tapes and on our last working DLT drive....

Several Users asked, what type of Tapes and the Model of the DLT Drive... If they had that information... You may be back in Business...

Al

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And this post about KevinT wanting to donate equipment:

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Posted 21 days ago by KevinT
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. Plus all our old DLT drives are broken - we have only one left up here at the lab that reasonably works - that's what I use to read these old data tapes.
- Matt


Matt -

I have a Compaq DLT 40/80 series 3306 unit - it is not doing anything but collecting dust here - How can I get it to you ?

Thank You Tony!

Donate Equipment

And this post about KevinT wanting to donate equipment:

33) Message boards : : Number crunching : Almost out of Work...
Posted 21 days ago by KevinT
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. Plus all our old DLT drives are broken - we have only one left up here at the lab that reasonably works - that's what I use to read these old data tapes.
- Matt


Matt -

I have a Compaq DLT 40/80 series 3306 unit - it is not doing anything but collecting dust here - How can I get it to you ?

Al

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The silly question is how can Fuzzy or I attempt to Help with Donations when a User reports This?

Not to long ago Matt was saying we are out of DLT tapes and on our last working DLT drive....

Several Users asked, what type of Tapes and the Model of the DLT Drive... If they had that information... You may be back in Business...

Al

I offered to donate some SDLT tapes to Matt and he informed me that the tapes they're looking at are SDLT 2, or the 300/600 GB ones. Those retail at around $180/tape.

Reid

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The silly question is how can Fuzzy or I attempt to Help with Donations when a User reports This?

Not to long ago Matt was saying we are out of DLT tapes and on our last working DLT drive....

Several Users asked, what type of Tapes and the Model of the DLT Drive... If they had that information... You may be back in Business...

Al

I offered to donate some SDLT tapes to Matt and he informed me that the tapes they're looking at are SDLT 2, or the 300/600 GB ones. Those retail at around $180/tape.

Reid

Are these the ones they are searching? 89€/tape thats about 110$/tape. How much is the shipping to the U.S.?

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There are many places this side of the pond that sell that tape or equiv for 84-89 $ US. Shipping would be less, I'd imagine.

FYI, it works now, at least it did for me. PS if you are using firfox with scripts disable you may have an issue.

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Here's the email chain when I reported the error:

On 2/17/06, Gift Admin Help Desk wrote:

There was no transaction recorded for the gift to Cal that you tried to make last night that generated the error message. Please try to make the on-line gift again. If the error occurs again, please make a note of when the error message pops up and e-mail us again. This will better help our program to located the on-line problem. We thank you for your continued generosity to Cal. Please let me know if we can be of further assistance.

Catie Cariaga

(to which I responded)

OK. Just to let you know I got the error when I hit the final confirmation button to make the donation.

(to which she responded)

On 2/17/06, Gift Admin Help Desk wrote:

Thanks, I will forward this to Kate Riley who is working on this error.

PS if you are using firfox with scripts disable you may have an issue.

I do have javascript enabled in FF. I'll try it again. Hopefully the issue has been resolved.

Edit: It's working now! :)

Thanks for your persistence! There was another problem that was causing the donation link to fail on some proxies. I think I've fixed that one, too.

I'll talk to Matt tomorrow about the specifics of donating tapes and equipment. He may be back here to respond directly before then, though.

Eric

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Thanks for your persistence! There was another problem that was causing the donation link to fail on some proxies. I think I've fixed that one, too.

I'll talk to Matt tomorrow about the specifics of donating tapes and equipment. He may be back here to respond directly before then, though.

Eric

hi Eric

thank you very much,

for this informatiom

Best Wishes
Byron

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I'll talk to Matt tomorrow about the specifics of donating tapes and equipment. He may be back here to respond directly before then, though.

I know there's a list of hardware that Matt wants but how about a barebones minimum list of what he needs? You never know but there may be people out there with old equipment that would work well with SETI right now.

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As Fuzzy said that Matt would take time to inform us... I guess the Polite thing is I did say how long ago...

I'll talk to Matt tomorrow about the specifics of donating tapes and equipment. He may be back here to respond directly before then, though.

I know there's a list of hardware that Matt wants but how about a barebones minimum list of what he needs? You never know but there may be people out there with old equipment that would work well with SETI right now.

In the "mean time" I hope that Eric did finally fix the problem, as You Now Have a Green Star... Applause!

Al

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I know there's a list of hardware that Matt wants but how about a barebones minimum list of what he needs? You never know but there may be people out there with old equipment that would work well with SETI right now.

Well, he did mention in another thread that the new seti-recorder likely will average 32 Mbit/s, meaning 322 GB/day... Now, if whoever feeds tapes to the recorder at Arecibo can just add 10+ tapes at once, it won't be a big problem whatever the tape-size is. But, if can only add one tape at once, it's unlikely someone would want to add a new tape roughly every 2 hours...

Now, if it's 6 months till the new recorder is installed and the old still works, getting a bunch of small tapes would be a good idea. But, if the old doesn't work, or the new is ready for installation in a month or so, it can come down to no-one will shuffle tapes every 2 hours...

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