> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jim > stephens via cctalk > Sent: 04 June 2017 22:43 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Anybody has Control Data (CDC) disk packs for 841 and 844 disk > drives to spare with? > > > > 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.
Well, I haven't recovered anything yet.... 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. Actually the pack is not in my possession, it is still at Manchester University, in a display case. I am pretty sure that if there was a realistic chance of recovering data from it that they would be happy to try it. Rob > > 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
