Can anyone help this guy?
>Professor Dr Hans Rollmann, who supervises one of the more elegant and
>elaborate sites on the WorldWideWeb for the Department of Religious Studies
>at Memorial University in Newfoundland, has found some important primary
>data that he hopes to mount with other texts on the site. These data are
>imprisoned on 8-inch computer disks that were made on an AES computer,
>apparently in the 1980s. No printed record of the material survives; only
>the 8-inch disks remain. No AES computer or 8-inch drive exists at Memorial
>University; the technical services people from the Computing Sciences
>Department tried to build an 8-inch drive from spare parts, but came up
>short. The intellectual content frozen in this "obsolete" technology
>remains unreadable.
>
>Does anyone know the whereabouts of an intact AES computer? Failing that,
>is there any available information about these machines? What did the
>acronym AES stand for? Where was it built? Most important, what operating
>system did it use? What word processing software might have been loaded?
>
>Has anyone preserved any computer with an 8-inch disk drive? As I recall,
>both Commodore and Atari used 8-inch drives.
>
>Anyone who has useful information on this problem can communicate with
>Professor Rollmann at
>
> hrollman_at_morgan.ucs.mun.ca
>
>Those who may be interested in his religious studies web site can begin
>sifting through its many layers at
>
> http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~hrollman
>
>Professor Rollmann will be grateful for any assistance anyone can offer.
>The rest of us need to be sure that any intellectual material we
>"catalogue" can also be "read."
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Received on Fri Oct 09 1998 - 13:53:42 BST