5 Nov
2001
5 Nov
'01
6:30 a.m.
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
What are the odds that a 15 year old tape is even
readable today?? I know
when I found the original BSD tapes here even with their being stored in
the
computer room, they were unreadable.
You might be surprised.
PUPS has Mini-Unix because I was able to read a 15 year old tape a few
years back.
I can still read a copy of the V6 distribution that was made in the late
1970's. Recently I read thru all the 9 track tapes I had, and only one of
them had errors. Many were well over 10 years old.
And Paul Pierce managed to put together a usable image of the IBM PR155 O/S
for the IBM 1410 by reading 2 7 track tapes that were pushing 30.
Jay Jaeger
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