16 Oct
2006
16 Oct
'06
12:53 p.m.
Has anyone ever found any GENIE tapes or backups?
There are two sets of backups from UCB and Shell Development that have been
found. The problem is there are no surviving copies of what was on the
swapping drum, so building a runnable system has proven to be very
difficult.
The contents of the tapes need to have the personal directories expunged
before they can be released.
Unfortunately, the SDS software library that CHM was just given doesn't
contain the system software for the 940. There is one diagnostic tape and a
user utility tape.
From going through the documentation that came with the
library, it looks
like there was very little for the 940 inside SDS as far back as
1971.