24 Dec
2005
24 Dec
'05
2:22 p.m.
At 8:40 AM -0500 12/24/05, Tim Shoppa wrote:
I think you're being overoptimistic. On the corporate side DEC
attempted to purge all that stuff into the bitbucket. There were
individuals inside DEC who preserved what they could and many of
these tapes have made their way into the archive.
I know they dumped a *lot*, but I thought there had been some
"official" dumping of what was left on CHM.
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at
aracnet.com> wrote:
I'll have to see if I can figure that out...
I could have sworn it was someone at RCS/RI,
that said a couple years
ago that they had stuff that wasn't in your your archive.
Very possible, but I don't know who it was or what they have. [CHM]
It would definitely be nice to know what
is there, am I remembering
correctly that DEC/Compaq shipped them what remained of the DEC
archives? Just because the archive stopped growing a couple years
ago, don't you
ever believe that it's because I've got copies of everything that ever
existed! The real reason it stopped growing is because people stopped
giving me tapes to image and put into the archive.
I'm guessing that 99.9% of the distribution tapes are still
not imaged, and are rotting away in some dank corner...
And the trick is finding the 1% or so that might still exist and
getting them imaged :^(
Zane
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