I foolishly thought that there would always be 12" reel to reel tapes around. I guess you were smart and got your programs onto QIC tapes or something else futu

I foolishly thought that there would always be 12" reel to reel tapes around. I guess you were smart and got your programs onto QIC tapes or something else futureproof? Floppy disks? I had lots of imagery I wanted to keep so that option was ruled out. But when there is a big room with an operator and tape machines as big as washing machines and racks of tapes it is hard to imagine it will all be absolutely gone one day, particularly if that kit is used daily and extremely valuable. But it all ended up in the trash. For me the VAX was a different tool, we had a hardware version of 'Photoshop' with every pixel having many logic boards so everything in image processing was instant. On its own without the fairly custom hardware and the networking environment the VAX would have been useless to me, like having just the dashboard of a car with no motor or wheels. So it would have been the images and not the code I would have wanted from then.