8 Aug
2012
8 Aug
'12
3:21 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
On 8/8/12 1:55 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
I sure did, almost immediately after I got them ~10 years ago. I was
afraid the tapes might begin to degrade after being removed from the
computer room so I didn't let them sit long.
One of the emails the listserv just recently ate included links to my
webserver where I have image files of the tapes. With the mkboot tape
though, I'm not 100% sure if it is functional. I had no errors while
reading the tape, and both the first and third partitions are fully
extractable cpio format, but the second partition doesn't read as cpio
(but appears to be some sort of binary archive). I dumped them byte for
byte as they were on the tape though.
That's pretty much where I left things with
the 1400.
Did you manage to make a copy of the software tape?