Don Maslin's archive...

On 12/10/12 8:12 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: this is what I wrote on Erik's site when cctlk was down -- What was the trick to recovery this collection? Did it turn out to be stored on those backup tapes which are pictured in the download? The short story is that CHM has been working with Don's niece to try to preserve part of his collection. I went down in July and picked up all of the media I could find, but at that time I couldn't find the machine that would have held the disk images that Don had said that he had created. Another CHM staff member was in San Diego over Thanksgiving and went over to the storage unit and found three more boxes of media. One of them had the tapes. Once I was able to figure out what they were recorded with (a 40mb Irwin floppy tape using EZTAPE) and after I replaced the tension band, it was obvious that they were the backup tapes for his archive machine (which turns out to have been called Aardvark). I was able to recover the C: partition but it took a bit of messing around with the versions of EZTAPE on C: before I was able to recover the multi-tape backup sets from D:, which was where the images were. -- Related to this. A rescue will be necessary for the remaining contents of the storage unit, if someone else in the San Diego area can coordinate it. Deborah wants to close out the lease There are still a bunch of machines and paper there which CHM can't preserve because of a storage space shortage.