Re: [TUHS] Early Internet work

Hi, we just read the second tape, which read without error. It appears to be mostly the same stuff as the first, except that for some not-now-understood reason, a lot of the sub-directories in /src/src (the directory that held most of the sources) weren't there on the _first_ tape, but _are_ there on the _second_. So at this point we have access to everything that was on that machine. It's too long a list to go through, but here: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/tmp/csr2_edfiles.txt is an edited list of the files on the machine. Most of /usr/ has been deleted, since it contains a lot of personal files, the names of which I don't wish to make public. Alas, some of the code (e.g. the much of the MIT TCP/IP) was in some personal directories; it will take me a while to curate all that. Also, this machine did not contain everything that was done at MIT: one particularly saddening lacuna is that the Algol-60 (written for the 'Intro to programming for CS majors' course, 6.031 to those for whom that means anything) isn't there, along with its documentation. With that being _such_ an incredibly influential language, I'd really wanted to see a PDP-11 version made available. There's also an APL, and some missing subdirectories in the BCPL source directory ('henke', 'richards' and 'tenex'). Etc, etc. I have reached out to people at MIT, to see if a tape backup from the machine where all that was can be found; I will keep you all posted if anything shows up. Yes, that's there ('c8080'), but object-only - it may have been something that was purchased from an outside vendor. There does seem like there might be an 8080-back end for the BCPL compiler. Noel