> And let's not exaggerate the complexity of setting up external tape drives, even on Windows/macOS.

Having found a matching Sun Ultra 5 generation drive, I tried to get it to work with a SCSI card, and had .. many many problems. It may be the rubber bands. It may be stiction. it may be ants. It may be me.

I would personally love to de-exaggerate the complexitity: Old hardware is gnarly. I sourced parts, it wasn't working.