At 8:27 AM -0800 12/10/12, Al Kossow wrote:
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.
Thank you for all your effort in this! Honestly this is an area I'm
not that interested in, BUT, I really wanted to see Don's work
preserved. Years ago, he helped me with info for my IMSAI-8080,
which I always appreciated.
Zane
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