Floppy recovery

[Jason Scott]

I threw it to 50-50 when I weighed in the possibility that he might find an
organization willing to pay him something ridiculous to have the archive
posthumously. If that doesn't happen, yeah, 90-10.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Rich Alderson <
RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:

> From: Jason Scott
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 1:53 PM
>
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:27 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com>> wrote:
>
> >> On a tangent, from a lecture 35 years ago by Harlan Ellison, I hope all
> of
> >> his papers are preserved and transcribed.  He had about 15 4 drawer
> >> cabinets of work notes at that time, probably double or triple that
> now.  I
> >> think at the time he worked manually as well.
>
> > As someone who's dealt with Harlan Ellison on multiple fronts. I will
> tell
> > you the chances he will burn those drawers is 50-50.
>
> Though I've never met him, I have friends who have worked for him.  We
> would
> put it at 90-10.
>
>                                                                 Rich
>
>
> Rich Alderson
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> Living Computer Museum
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