12 May
2025
12 May
'25
1:38 p.m.
Noel Chiappa writes:
And I should ask Lars if the backup tapes of the
DSSR/RTS machine went
to the MIT archives - they might well have done, and Prof. Ward just
didn't know that.
They might. There are thousands of tapes, most of which are from ITS or
TOPS-20. But that still leaves room for hundreds of Unix tar, dump, and
cpio tapes in various interesting 16/32-bit and big/little endian
combinations. I'm guessing they are 4BSD, Sun, and maybe PDP-11
formats. I haven't taken the time to go through them; in many cases
modern tools don't work, so I have to make my own.
A propos Teixeira's message, there are also VMS tapes with NIL.