8 Oct
2009
8 Oct
'09
2:03 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
That would be the next step, I'd think.
These are original distro floppies from the late
1980s. ?I'm honestly
not expecting 100% success on reading them, but fortunately, the
content is far from unique.
My thinking is that if you image the set, then the next step is to try to
find people with copies of the floppies you have that aren't readable. Isn't the stack something like 50 RX50 floppies?
I'd have to go count, but ISTR that uVMS 1.0 is around 35 floppies.
50 is a good rough count (and might be more accurate for uVMS 4.0,
say)
It sure was a pain loading it in the old days - nothing like loading from tape.
-ethan