PDP-10s

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:40 AM -0500 12/24/05, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>>  I could have sworn it was someone at RCS/RI, that said a couple years
>>  ago that they had stuff that wasn't in your your archive.
>
>Very possible, but I don't know who it was or what they have.

I'll have to see if I can figure that out...

>  > > [CHM]
>>  It would definitely be nice to know what is there, am I remembering
>>  correctly that DEC/Compaq shipped them what remained of the DEC
>>  archives?
>
>I think you're being overoptimistic. On the corporate side DEC
>attempted to purge all that stuff into the bitbucket. There were
>individuals inside DEC who preserved what they could and many of
>these tapes have made their way into the archive.

I know they dumped a *lot*, but I thought there had been some 
"official" dumping of what was left on CHM.


>Just because the archive stopped growing a couple years ago, don't you
>ever believe that it's because I've got copies of everything that ever
>existed! The real reason it stopped growing is because people stopped
>giving me tapes to image and put into the archive.
>
>I'm guessing that 99.9% of the distribution tapes are still
>not imaged, and are rotting away in some dank corner...

And the trick is finding the 1% or so that might still exist and 
getting them imaged :^(

			Zane


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