13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
6 p.m.
On Mar 13, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Francesca Smith wrote:
I know *exactly* how you feel! Restoring the old backups from my
first PDP-11 (RSTS/E) and flipping through those files...it was a
very powerful experience.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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.
Cool to me it was like catching time in a bottle. Getting to the
files I
worked with perhaps will bring me back in a small way to those
days. You
never know how much you miss something till its gone. I really did not
appreciate those early awkward days until much later in life.