New find: DECUS RSX SIG Tapes

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_aconit.org>
Date: Thu Jul 19 01:41:57 2001

William King wrote:
 
> I recently acquired a load of 9 track tapes from eBay. What a deal, I only
> paid 1 cent for a trunk load of tapes. In there, I found an original DEC
> RSX11M+ (3.0) distribution, several DECUS RSX SIG tapes from the fall of
> 1981 to the spring of 1987 and a bunch of other miscellaneous tapes!
>
> I put a list of most of the tapes up on my www site:
> http://www.dadaboom.com/pdp11/software/tapes.html .
>
> If copies are not available elsewhere, I was planning on duping the RSX SIG
> tapes and putting them up on my www site. I won't be putting the RSX
> distribution online due to the copyright infringement problems :-(

There is a large archive of DEC related software at
http://trailing-edge.com
You might consider makng your tapes available there also.

> Now the questions
> 1.) Would having the tapes on-line be useful?
> 2.) If so, what's the best way to dup them and make them available for
> download?

Tim Shoppa at trailing-edge has this problem solved.

Regards,

  -- HBP
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