On 09/02/2010, Andrew Back <andy at flirble.org> wrote:
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley have
machines with 8" drives.
IIRC a Research Machines 380Z, for one, and I'm sure there will be others.
They might be interested in a copy of the software for their archives too.
Hmm. They are certainly a possibility; I was hoping for somebody or
someone closer to me, or the discs, though.. I do know they are
interested in having some sort of system up and running to demo
viewdata, although I don't know if the original machine I know about
had any form of host on it, or if it was just an off-line editing
system. It's more the data I'm interested in, but of course the
software is an interest in itself.
Irritating in a way - I just remembered where I'd seen an abandoned
machine with 8" drives that was a memory niggling me: in the workshop
of a former employer that has subsequently gone bust, and it would
have been getting on for 20 years ago anyway!
Thanks..
Rob