15 Jul
1998
15 Jul
'98
5:11 a.m.
At 06:39 AM 7/15/98 -0800, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Gees, I feel kind of left out. I've been maintaining the RT-11 sig tapes
for most of a decade now, and when somebody finds a pile nobody thinks
about asking me.
I think they will now.
(I have nightmares about the only remaining
copy of the Fall 77 tape being chewed up by a person who throws it
on a 9-track drive without taking all the precautions....!)
One of the sections of my web page is devoted to preserving the history
of the UCSD P-System. According to Ken Bowles, head of the project,
he kept source disks to all releases for versions III and IV in storage
for about fifteen years, then he decided they were useless and that
the world had no interest in them, so he threw them out. A few years
after that, he started receiving inquiries about that source. By
that time, any of the subsequent licensees of the P-System and UCSD
Pascal no longer had any copies of that source, either.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>