17 Oct
2000
17 Oct
'00
12:28 p.m.
At 05:29 PM 10/17/00 -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
I miss CompuServe's PDP11 and Vax Sig.
After years of fighting anyone who attempted to redistribute
the messages from their forums and libraries, I would guess
that Compuserve or the new owners never kept or maintained
backups of all that valuable or at least historically
interesting data. If you want another windmill to tilt at,
try to find those nine-tracks...
I have gobs of old floppies where I meticulously archived
each of my vanilla-interface Compuserve sessions from 1985
until 1995 or so, but to conserve space I even edited them
as I read them, and they're mixed with my private e-mail
messages.
- John