Did anyone on the list get these tapes?

[Nigel Williams]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/LCM_Early_PDP-11

Thanks everyone for preserving these items.

In the unpacked file dectapes-extracted.zip, folder 118655.tu56 has
within it BASIC.P11.txt, the filename suggesting it might be a version
of BASIC, but the header of the file is this:

;FOCAL-11, VERSION B2

;BY RICK MERRILL

;COPYRIGHT@ 1970,1971 BY
;DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP, MAYNARD, MASS.

overall the file contents suggest it is FOCAL, is there a way to check
that this is what was on the original tape? and not a handling problem
during the recovery?


As an aside there is an early version of TECO-11 there too:

TITLE TECO   V.21A - 18 AUG 70 - RC CLEMENTS/PMH/CM
SUBTTL TEXT EDITOR AND CORRECTOR

;COPYRIGHT DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP., 1969,1970, MAYNARD, MASS.