13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
5:37 a.m.
At 11:02 PM 3/12/2007, Francesca Smith wrote:
I have about 75 or so RL02's/RL01's and about
20 RK05's. Two of the RK05's are
extremely precious to me. I used these in the early 80's with a 11/45 and
11/70 I had in a lab in California. The thing is that they stayed behind at
the place I use to work at while I moved on to work on other exciting things
like VAX's. Then about a year or so ago. I saw these RK05's on E-Pay. I WAS
absolutely Floored when I opened up the box and they were my packs looking
just like when I left them. What is the chance of that happening. ???
Lightning strikes. Chance favors the prepared mind. Or at least the
obsessive mind with time on its hands. I have a stack of nine-tracks
I bought at the university surplus that must've stayed in limbo from
a department I once worked at - at least fifteen years before.
I looked at the stack on the shelf at the sale and said to myself,
why, those look just like the ones we used to use... and I reached
for them, and they were. A few bucks and they were mine.
Soon after, a list member helped me read them. They were a set
of RSTS backups from when I was working there.
- John