Call for Help: Retrieve files from 14" DEC platters

From: Matt Pritchard <MPritchard_at_ensemble.net>
Date: Tue May 13 17:59:27 1997

This news just in:

According to Ray Roux, who maintained the VAX systems, we were running
Unix, BSD 4.1. The platters are 14", with the label: Data Cartridge
RL02K-DC.
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Any help in finding a system that can read it, and someone willing to
help out is massively appreciated!
-Matt Pritchard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: A.R. Duell [SMTP:ard12_at_eng.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 1997 12:43 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Call for Help: Retrieve files from 14" DEC platters
>
> > In addition to all the games that people know about, the Blus Sky
> > Rangers have some 14" DEC platters taken from 2 VAX systems that
> were
> > used for development. These files on these platters include source
> > code, screen shots and data from *UNRELEASED* Intellivision games.
> Some
> > of these probably were announced titles that never shipped, others
> were
> > never even announced.
>
> 14" platters could be almost anything (off the top of my head, RK04,
> RK05,
> RL01, RL02, RK06, RK07, RM02, RM03, RP04, RP05, RP06, Several CDC
> drives,
> etc). And a drive that capable of reading one will not read any of the
> others (even if they will physically fit into it).
>
> If you can find out what they were written on, there's a good chance
> that
> somebody will still have at least one working drive...
>
>
> --
> -tony
> ard12_at_eng.cam.ac.uk
> The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill
Received on Tue May 13 1997 - 17:59:27 BST