My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

And I will still endeavor to take care of the PDP-10 software archives, the DECUS PDP-11 and PDP-10 collections, etc. It's been years since any software was donated to those archives so I haven't put a lot of effort into them. But it's good to know that there a are a couple of PDP-10's around the world that are now usefully "up" thanks to the archives. -- I need to see about completely cloning trailing-edge. There were a few cgi scripts there that made using wget difficult when I tried to copy it to bitsavers. I've made a few attempts to break into the professional archiving world w.r.t. digital media, but so far I've been universally ignored. Of course, those who ignore me would rather just talk about the problem rather than solve it. So maybe that's why I don't register on their radar. You have seen and probably will see me rant and rave on this subject occasionally! -- Given another 10 years it won't be an issue, since after the next round of corporate failures/mergers there won't be any old software to recover, and as you've discovered, people don't seem to be very concerned about recovering/preserving what exists now. I've been ranting for a while now that people are saving the iron, but not the software that ran on it. It's surprising how little is even left from late 60's IBM 360s (incl the systems themselves), which was the most popular large computing system, and how MUCH has been saved from DEC (thanks to the efforts of collectors and CHM). I'm starting to think that there is going to be a pretty strange view of computer software in the future, since there is so MUCH that was saved from DEC, and almost nothing from Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, and Honeywell (the last member of the BUNCH, CDC, seems to have a fair amount saved, though)