Funny how really primitive storage technologies like paper tape or black and white
film are readable decades (or centuries) later, but modern ones like tape and disks
are NOT.
The archivists and historians of the next century are going to hate us since
our historical records will end in the 1970's when everything went magnetic.

Robert

Walter Banks wrote:

> I am pretty certain that I have this on PDP-11 DECtape as
> well. It might be on RK-05 (2.5M) removable hard disks.
> I have a PDP-11 that can read RK-05's hasn't been
> powered up for at least 10 years. I think the best bet is
> the paper tape. Once read I am sure that I will wince
> tat  my coding style from 33 years ago.
> 
> It was written in asm
> 
> w..
> 
> William Chops Westfield wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Walter Banks wrote:
>>
>>
>>>When I get this read I'll post this relic from the past.
>>
>>Sigh.  My relics from that timeframe got put on MODERN media.
>>Like DECTape.  Which became unreadable pretty much immediately
>>thereafter.
>>But I think it's just as well that I can't get a look at the old basic
>>programs that I had named after assorted girls I knew...
>>
>>BillW
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