I have a QIC tape that I’m looking to get the contents off of and was pointed in bear’s
direction and he’s ignored my emails too.
I guess it is best not to bother him.
On Dec 12, 2024, at 8:51 PM, jfsebastian--- via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Hello
I have been doing a several years effort to save (very) old software for posterity,
researchers, students. Mostly early 90s UNIXes, SunOS, Solaris, DG-UX, HP-UX, AIX,
DEC-UNIX, some VMS software even. I uploaded some things to the Archive, and elsewhere,
but I would rather get this off my shoulders, for mortality affects us all. This vanishing
would be a loss, with many of these things are nowhere to be found anymore.
I tried contacting the admin(?) bear at typewritten dot org, offering a few things for
archiving, without results. Do any of the users here have any means to contact the admin
there? I would very much like to access some of the UNIXes software there, and would
gladly offer a quid pro quo.
Similarly, if you have any software for Solaris (2.6, earlier) and other UNIXes,
regardless of licensing status, I would be very much interested.
Some things probably are lost forever though, such as Proliant PL/I, VisualWorks 2.5,
Tibco S-PLUS, Harlequin WebWorks and such.
Thanks in advance, and all the best
Seb.