TRAC; Two TI DS10 disk packs available

[Steve Jones]

The following are available, but with a request.

Two clean TI DS10 (TI-990 era) disk packs. I've been charged
by a friend with finding a good home from them, which I think
means someone from this list trying to keep a TI-990 in good
order. The catch is, we'd like to get any recoverable data
off of these disk packs.

My friend is a board member for the TRAC Foundation. TRAC is
"an interpretive, recursive, string-based, macroprocessing
language with no compile step" invented by Calvin Mooers
starting in 1959. Going to www.tracfoundation.com one finds
that "entire subroutines can be inserted, or deleted, from
a running procedure, thus massively changing the behavior
during runtime." Whoa! Imagine changing a sort routine half
way through a long running job...

The reason I mention TRAC is that there's a chance one
of these packs has important/useful information about the
TRAC language, and my friend would really appreciate it if
the new owner could check for and recover anything that's
on these.

That's the only catch - we want whatever can be read from
them. And whoever wants them would need to pony up for
shipping and handling, or come collect them near Boston, MA,
USA. I can try to scrounge up a suitable box, but the packs
might have to go through the UPS Store too.

So, preference will be given to the person who stands the
best chance of recovering data. I can wait a week to see
what responses come in.

Thanks,
--Steve.