13 May
1997
13 May
'97
1:59 p.m.
This news just in:
According to Ray Roux, who maintained the VAX systems, we were running
Unix, BSD 4.1. The platters are 14", with the label: Data Cartridge
RL02K-DC.
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Any help in finding a system that can read it, and someone willing to
help out is massively appreciated!
-Matt Pritchard
-----Original Message-----
From: A.R. Duell [SMTP:ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 1997 12:43 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Call for Help: Retrieve files from 14" DEC platters
In addition to all the games that people know
about, the Blus Sky
Rangers have some 14" DEC platters taken from 2 VAX systems that
were
used for development. These files on these
platters include source
code, screen shots and data from *UNRELEASED* Intellivision games.
Some
of these probably were announced titles that
never shipped, others
were
never even announced.
14" platters could be almost anything (off the top of my head, RK04,
RK05,
RL01, RL02, RK06, RK07, RM02, RM03, RP04, RP05, RP06, Several CDC
drives,
etc). And a drive that capable of reading one will not read any of the
others (even if they will physically fit into it).
If you can find out what they were written on, there's a good chance
that
somebody will still have at least one working drive...
--
-tony
ard12(a)eng.cam.ac.uk
The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill