On 6/4/2017 2:11 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
In my case this is not with the intention of running anything, I don't have an
ICL 1905E (!). All I want to do is recover the data on the disk as it may
contain what is possibly the only copy anywhere of an operating system that was
built at Manchester University.
Regards
Rob,
many thanks for recovering data. My comment was just because of that
blob of angst I get in the pit of my stomach from time to time thinking
about these things and them crashing. Of course it is really wonderful
you have saved the media. I hope that someone has a means to recover
the pack and you have success.
When I worked for Microdata corporation, their earlier work was
contained in a 30' x 5' bank of 80 column card drawers. When they moved
from the facility that the work had been performed, they decided since
they had converted to totally different technologies to scrap all of it.
I was told that the entire pile was mine to have and deal with. I
digitized copies of every unique product in the pile and save them. I
have since had them converted to images, and Al has them @ CHM. but so
much of this happens and there is no trace left of the media.
Note as a side story, they had been doing something similar to a source
control program, so though the above sounds like a fantastic amount of
software, some times one or two card drawer racks contained dozens of
revisions of the same program. From a practical standpoint, I had to
determine the last version and save them. Of course I could now have
had the largest 80 column card collection left (probably) if I'd saved
the lot.
would have been fun to have saved it and have it @ the CHM or some museum.
thanks
Jim
