8 Dec
2018
8 Dec
'18
8:37 a.m.
When did the DECUS purge occur?
Marc
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 8:26 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 12/8/18 11:16 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 12/8/18 7:10 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Would be nice to save what of this can still be recovered.
It was disturbing to hear DECUS threw stuff out, but not
surprising. I know of other such actions. Stuff Dennis
Ritchie donated to a former East Coast Computer Museum
was discarded and I also know of stuff given to USENIX
that they tossed (luckily some of that has been recovered
but I am sure much was lost permanently).
bill
As long as we're talking about old PDP-11
DECUS stuff I
am still looking for a copy of:
11S042 Symposium Tape from the RSTS SIG, Spring 1980,
Chicago Version: Spring 1980
Of course, I would be interested in pretty much anything from
the RSTS SIG but this is my holy grail. :-)
bill
Maybe I can talk Josh at LCM+L to work on a joint project in 2019 to
see what DECUS submissions they and CHM have.
I know Lyle would really like me to read his DECUS
PDP-12 DECtapes and I really should better organize
what is in bitsavers.org/bits/DEC. I probably makes
sense to break out the DECUS library there.