Hi Graham. I last communicated with Fred at least a year ago (might've been two, actually). Last I heard from him he was moving into a nursing home as he was apparently debilitated as a result of a car accident some years ago.
I believe the last time he reached out to me was via Facebook. Later today I'll log in and see if I can find a contact for Fred and get back to you. I believe he's on my "friend" list there. Sellam On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 2:34 PM Graham Toal via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > 20 years ago I loaned Fred van Kempen a pdp11 disk pack (RK11?) to try > recovering for me. We think it may have the Dutch "GUTS" operating system > (Groningen University Timesharing System - > https://gtoal.com/history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/scans/guts/*.pdf ) and > sources on it. My Dad carefully hand-carried it to the Netherlands from > Scotland by boat and bicycle!, avoiding any magnetic scanning on the way. > > I never heard back from Fred and every now and then (some years apart) I > try to contact him but all the mail addresses I've tried go unreplied or > bounce. > > Does anyone here know him and have a reliable way to contact him? He might > be in the USA now and the only indication I have that he's still alive is a > github update in Jan of this year (and happily a lack of hits when looking > for an obituary!). > > I'm assuming he never extracted the disk contents because if he had I'm > sure he would have contacted me. If the disk has not degraded too much > over the last 20 years since I last saw it, I'ld still like to recover it > and so I'ld like to get it back from Fred and give it to whoever else might > be able to read it. > > Thanks, > > Graham >
