24 Dec
2005
24 Dec
'05
12:59 a.m.
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
While the CPU's are showing up, how about Disk and
Tape drives? They're
*one* of the reasons I've never looked into getting a real PDP-10, though
space and power are about as important for me :^(
BTW, have you ever figured out what tapes the museums collection has, that Tim
doesn't have up on his site?
As far as the PDP-10 software archives go ( http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ )
the collection grew by leaps and bounds in the late 90's and 2000/2001 but
since then there have only been a very few tapes added. It should be
noted that the RCS/RI tapes formed the initial part of the collection
and they were very cooperative in getting this stuff to me and onto the
net (thanks to all of them and particularly Megan).
The CHM's software curator posts here, and I'm occasionally in contact
with others who volunteer at the CHM and elsewhere, but I've made no progress
ever in getting them to even get me a list or partial inventory of what
tapes/software are in their collections. I get the impression that they've
been so completely overwhelmed by the task that they don't know where
to start, but I'm sure I'm oversimplifying things.
I had hoped that my PDP-10 archives would spur others to "empty the closet"
and get all the stuff that is free redistributable or covered by the
36-bit hobbyist license out and in the open, and it had some effect
but not as wide as I wanted.
Tim.