Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi
> It is best to save as much older media as possible but one
> also needs to be realistic. A room full of tapes can easily
> be put onto a single disk drive of today. First level of importance
> is to save the information.
I absolutely agree. We have a boatload of tapes reels, tape cassettes of
different descritptions, floppy disks of all sizes. But the most
important part, the data on those media is normally ignored. I hear the
comment "Why do we need ANOTHER box of floopies, we already have 20" -
makes my blood boil.... I really must get round to starting to read
those tapes.
After we retores our PDP-9, I strated looking amongst the 100 or so
DECtapes we had and found a pair that appeared, from their labels, to
contain a copy of DOS-15. Now DOS-15 was considered lost forever.
Anyways to cut a long story short, we managed to recover the data and
got DOS-15 opeartional again on the SIMH simulator. For more details
read Bo Supniks paper here :
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/advmonsys.pdf
-- hbp
Received on Fri Aug 08 2003 - 12:19:00 BST