Do we have anyone who can read these tapes? Maybe Al at CHM?

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 4:58 AM mokuba--- via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> For some handy clarification - some of the tapes I saw seemed to be
> operating system tapes for the MAX 32 computer.
>
> Labeled things like "MAX 32 O/S & SUPPORT PART 2 OF 2" and "MAX 32 GLS -C
> COMPILER"
>
> 1600 BPI, 9 track.
>
> Also has MODCOMP copyrights, leading to this line of machines:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modcomp
>
> So likely the Modcomp Classic. Copyright dates on the labeling indicated
> 1981. So it would have been the latest and greatest OS for this system at
> the time.
>
> So this would have been the OS, according to that wiki article,
> controlling space shuttle launch complex. Also tangentially related
> (Modcomp IV, their first 32 bit computer) to the OS running PAVE PAWS
> initially.
>


-- 
Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
AC3IG

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