[cctalk] Looking for Fred N van Kempen ... (pdp11, GUTS)

2022-09-21 Thread Graham Toal via cctalk
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-ca

[cctalk] Re: Looking for Fred N van Kempen ... (pdp11, GUTS)

2022-09-21 Thread Graham Toal via cctalk
Ah. Thank you. And that would explain the loss of communication. Graham On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 4:51 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi Graham. > > I last communicated with Fred at least a year ago (might've been two, > actually). Last I heard from him he was movi

Re: post from classiccmp.org: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

2017-07-23 Thread Graham Toal via cctalk
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[cctalk] Can anyone (pref in USA) recover data from an old RK05 disk pack?

2024-01-23 Thread Graham Toal via cctalk
In 1979, the Dutch team of Harry Whitfield's students writing the Groningen University Time Sharing O/S called GUTS sent an RK05 to Edinburgh for us to try out on a PDP11/60 we had access to in Steven Salter's Wavepower project lab. Ian Young spun it up and learned how to use it. After some year

[cctalk] Re: Can anyone (pref in USA) recover data from an old RK05 disk pack?

2024-01-23 Thread Graham Toal via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM Wayne S wrote: > Can’t the pack be read and copied on the system it’s currently on? > It's not been near a computer since 1979. It's currently in Fred van Kempen's storage. Graham