16 Oct
2006
16 Oct
'06
12:53 p.m.
Has anyone ever found any GENIE tapes or backups?
There are two sets of backups from UCB and Shell Development that have been
found. The problem is there are no surviving copies of what was on the
swapping drum, so building a runnable system has proven to be very
difficult.
The contents of the tapes need to have the personal directories expunged
before they can be released.
Unfortunately, the SDS software library that CHM was just given doesn't
contain the system software for the 940. There is one diagnostic tape and a
user utility tape.
From going through the documentation that came with the
library, it looks
like there was very little for the 940 inside SDS as far back as
1971.
16 Oct
16 Oct
1:32 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:53:43PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
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Has anyone ever found any GENIE tapes or backups?
There are two sets of backups from UCB and Shell Development that have been
found. The problem is there are no surviving copies of what was on the
swapping drum, so building a runnable system has proven to be very
difficult. Unfortunately, the SDS software library that CHM was
just given doesn't
contain the system software for the 940. There is one diagnostic tape and a
user utility tape.
That's a damn shame. As you're more aware than (probably) anyone at
this point, software archaeology is exceedingly difficult.
It's become something of a passion of mine recently, coincidentally.
I've been begging and buying UNIX workstation system software of
relatively recent (~20 years) vintage and making backups to hang onto.
I don't want the bits to all disappear.
-Seth
--
"It looks just like a Telefunken U47! Seth Morabito
You'll love it." - Frank Zappa sethm at loomcom.com
From going through the documentation that came
with the library, it looks
like there was very little for the 940 inside SDS as far
back as 1971.
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