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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Preserving old Emacs versions |
Date: | Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:33:43 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 |
On 10/19/2016 01:01 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
We made backup tapes back then, but it is hard to read them and I am not sure where they are now.
If you can find the tapes, I suggest contacting the Computer History Museum <http://www.computerhistory.org/>. If they are DECtapes there's a good chance they will still be readable, as that is a robust format. Even IBM 9-track tapes might be mostly readable. I wouldn't wait too long, as the tapes will continue to degrade.
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