From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preserving old Emacs versions
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:33:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da99d31c-d59b-a188-2c3e-c0f87cfffa37@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1bwx3U-0005IQ-Bn@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 10/19/2016 01:01 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> We made backup tapes back then, but it is hard to read them
> and I am not sure where they are now.
If you can find the tapes, I suggest contacting the Computer History
Museum <http://www.computerhistory.org/>. If they are DECtapes there's a
good chance they will still be readable, as that is a robust format.
Even IBM 9-track tapes might be mostly readable. I wouldn't wait too
long, as the tapes will continue to degrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-19 7:29 Preserving old Emacs versions Lars Brinkhoff
2016-10-19 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-19 9:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-10-19 13:52 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-19 20:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-19 22:33 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-10-20 18:04 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-20 4:31 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-10-19 13:49 ` Drew Adams
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