We were moving, and my Spousal Unit convinced me to toss things I hadn't touched in a while - including my Intercept Jr. with the 32K battery-backed RAM card, and an old-style acoustic coupler modem. <sigh> Now that I'm considering a major move again (after my daughter goes off to college, in a couple of years) she's started making those noises again. We'll see what gets left behind this time....
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > The biggest one, which started me down the path of software preservation, > was giving away all the DECtapes that were on UW-Milwaukee's TSS/8 system > to Gary Coleman in Cleveland. I managed to find a box or two that other > people on the system kept, which is where what I have of the TSS/8 sources > came from. Gary told me he gave them to Jeff Russ at Indiana University, > but even after going down there to talk to him I got nowhere finding out > if he had (has?) them. I don't even know if Jeff is still alive, or what > happened to the big stash of 18-bit DEC computers he had. > > > > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
