19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
9:53 a.m.
Subject: Re: My classiccmp non-retirement :-)
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:27:30 -0700
To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org
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)
One the old iron front there are machine like IMP48 I haven't find docs
for and History on Cincinati Millichron 2000 and 2100 series (1973ish).
From the software front, I'm the odd egg, I have
stuff I haven't
cataloged yet. One example is the whole software base for a
defunct company that used S100 hardware something like 200 disks.
As to archiving, thats a next process. It will take years and
employment as it does require money to do it. In the meantime I
copy media to other machines and occasionally read/refresh it.
Allison