Value of a PDP/8? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Mar 2007

...
  I'm not quite sure how to get the message out
there that this stuff's of
 potential interest - particularly without being drowned in copies of mundane
 PC software. 
Guess we need to just keep putting the word out that there are places around
the world capable of reading old media. I'm saddened by the number of people
that I contact that don't want to bother sending old tapes because they are
'impossible' to read.

...
  I've largely come to the conclusion that it's
impossible to
 actively seek out - but that it does exist out there and will sometimes turn
 up completely at random. 
Frustrating, but true. The collections I know of that are still 'latent' will
probably stay that way forever, because the people who have them want to restore
their machines to read the media (a REALLY bad idea..)