19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
1:38 p.m.
On Jan 19, 2023, at 4:31 PM, rar--- via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Museum Staff Helps Exonerate David Veney
January 19, 2023, Hunt Valley, MD — Staff members of the System Source Computer Museum
recently completed a project that helped exonerate David Veney, wrongly convicted of rape
in 1997. In 2005, after Mr. Veney sought a new trial, the state found irregularities in
the prosecution, released Mr. Veney from prison, and declined to re-prosecute. ...
Wow. That is a marvelous story.
Just one comment: using the GreaseWeazle makes sense here, but other options would include
seeking out the help of the community. For example, 5.25 inch floppy drives are widely
available, and reading RX50 format on an ordinary drive in Linux is a trivial exercise.
Similarly, feeding the recovered device image to a SIMH instance would be easy enough.
The tricky task of translating the application data to readable text still remains in any
of those approaches, of course.
paul