macintosh retrospect 2.0 backup - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Jan 2007

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:18:17 -0500, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>  
wrote:
...
  Someone approached me about some "prior art"
and I am now looking at
 some 1/4" carts marked "quadra 950 retrospect 2.0 mac os" I made in  
 the
 early 1990's.

 If somehow I could find a working 1/4" drive (scsi) and got it  
 connected
 to a macintosh,

   Is there any hope I could find a copy of retrospect 2.0? 
I have a couple of early copies of Retrospect - they are from 95 and  
97, but don't label their version. I also have 4 and 5 available.

...

 anyone else ever try this? 
You might want to find a SCSI tape deck that is currently supported  
and then try a recent version (4 or 5) to attempt to read the tapes.  
Dantz did a fairly good job of being able to read old backups with  
current versions and I've pulled off some really old stuff when I was  
using 4.

...

 it's probably hopeless, but it might be a fun ride. hard to say.

 good thing I saved that powerbook 145b :-) 
Probably too early to do any good...

	CRC