17 Dec
2015
17 Dec
'15
9:03 a.m.
We were moving, and my Spousal Unit convinced me to toss things I hadn't
touched in a while - including my Intercept Jr. with the 32K battery-backed
RAM card, and an old-style acoustic coupler modem. <sigh> Now that I'm
considering a major move again (after my daughter goes off to college, in a
couple of years) she's started making those noises again. We'll see what
gets left behind this time....
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
The biggest one, which started me down the path of
software preservation,
was giving away all the DECtapes that were on UW-Milwaukee's TSS/8 system
to Gary Coleman in Cleveland. I managed to find a box or two that other
people on the system kept, which is where what I have of the TSS/8 sources
came from. Gary told me he gave them to Jeff Russ at Indiana University,
but even after going down there to talk to him I got nowhere finding out
if he had (has?) them. I don't even know if Jeff is still alive, or what
happened to the big stash of 18-bit DEC computers he had.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
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