Help with AES computer?

Professor Dr Hans Rollmann, who supervises one of the more elegant and elaborate sites on the WorldWideWeb for the Department of Religious Studies at Memorial University in Newfoundland, has found some important primary data that he hopes to mount with other texts on the site. These data are imprisoned on 8-inch computer disks that were made on an AES computer, apparently in the 1980s. No printed record of the material survives; only the 8-inch disks remain. No AES computer or 8-inch drive exists at Memorial University; the technical services people from the Computing Sciences Department tried to build an 8-inch drive from spare parts, but came up short. The intellectual content frozen in this "obsolete" technology remains unreadable. Does anyone know the whereabouts of an intact AES computer? Failing that, is there any available information about these machines? What did the acronym AES stand for? Where was it built? Most important, what operating system did it use? What word processing software might have been loaded? Has anyone preserved any computer with an 8-inch disk drive? As I recall, both Commodore and Atari used 8-inch drives. Anyone who has useful information on this problem can communicate with Professor Rollmann at hrollman(a)morgan.ucs.mun.ca Those who may be interested in his religious studies web site can begin sifting through its many layers at http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~hrollman Professor Rollmann will be grateful for any assistance anyone can offer. The rest of us need to be sure that any intellectual material we "catalogue" can also be "read."