Re: old media (was: wannabe isp)

2011-09-20 Thread Christopher Morrow 
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Randy Bush  wrote:
>> Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive?
>
> if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow.
> there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things
> off old media (like the besm-6 system).

the text archive folks (talk at blackhat) may as well have a method to
read these.

Re: old media

2011-09-19 Thread Roy 

On 9/19/2011 9:20 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive?

if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow.
there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things
off old media (like the besm-6 system).

randy





I haven't heard about te BESM-6 since the 1970s when I was studying 
Warsaw Pact Computers!


The BESM-6 was delivered from the factory without any software.

old media (was: wannabe isp)

2011-09-19 Thread Randy Bush 
> Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive?

if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow.
there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things
off old media (like the besm-6 system).

randy