Preserving a Multics System

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Fri Oct 20 19:33:37 2000

> > So is anyone archiving the software for this Mulitcs system?
>
> An archive of Multics exists at MIT. If my recent personal
> experiences with 9 track magtape can be considered representative
> and not anecdotal, then I think the tapes will still be readable
> even ten years from now.
>
> regards,
> -doug q
>

What kind of 9-Track tape drives can read these tapes though? IIRC, the
drives we had on the DPS-8's were pretty much bog-standard 9-Tracks (I
remember writting a tape to be read on a Sun box).

                                Zane
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 19:33:37 BST