Interesting Burroughs Photo Site

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Sun Aug 24 00:57:00 2003

we have a nice old Electrodata ( probaby for a 205) tape.... what are the
odds the data ( if any) is still good?
 Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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----- Original Message -----
From: "TeoZ" <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting Burroughs Photo Site


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hansp" <hansp_at_citem.org>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Interesting Burroughs Photo Site
>
>
> > 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
>
>
> Its the same for any generation of hardware. Even if you can find the
> hardware the manuals were the first to get tossed/lost by the original
owner
> followed shortly after by all the software once it wasnt used for anything
> anymore. Even if people keep juggling the software media to newer storage
> unless you have the original documentation nobody will know what to do
with
> it in 30 years time. A computer without software is nothing but a
> paperweight (or for newer machines a very expensive and inneficient hair
> dryers)
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