24 Feb
2021
24 Feb
'21
12:27 p.m.
On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Carlini via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
The more significant issue may be that DEC, and its successor companies, might have
objections to the public posting of company confidential material.
Too bad only a few things were archived. I looked for myself and found exactly one
notesfile ("fddi") with saved content, which made for some fun reading. But
other notesfiles that would actually be more interesting at this stage, like ones about
RSTS, aren't archived.
I wonder if anyone has the full archive dump. If so I'd love to have that.
paul
Does anyone have contact information for the
proprietor of this site:
http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes"
(kind of their equivalent of UseNet).
It appears from the "Download this site" page that at one time it was
possible to download an archive of the actual content, but the hosting used
for that only provides one week of free hosting, which has expired.
I don't need the entire archive (though I'd like to get it), but I'd
especially like to get messages from milkwy::23class_semiconductor and
ricks::decschips.
Well if they ever show up, I'd be interested :-).
That archive was largely incomplete: it had the message titles but very few of the actual
messages. There were some rather harsh negative comments on an FB group when someone
pointed to it. Obviously some people thought that when they were writing their original
comments that they would be kept private to the 100,000+ Digital employees :-)