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The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)
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Provide pointers to information about recovery of data from old backups #1046

Open masinter opened 1 year ago

masinter commented 1 year ago 
I don't remember doing anything with low-level networking in Medley or
predecessors at Savoir, but it's plausible John Sybalsky did, as
suggested by the filename.

None of the Savoir stuff is online in any place that I'm aware of.  I
have a box of backup tapes from that era, which might be interesting.  I
even found a matching QIC-150 tape drive in the garage, but I didn't
find the SCSI cables, terminators, interface card, etc. that would be
needed to connect it to a modern machine, and they don't appear to be
available.

Originally posted by @tlipkis in https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/issues/786#issuecomment-1147102547

Michele31415 commented 1 year ago

On 1/13/2023 11:23 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:

None of the Savoir stuff is online in any place that I'm aware of. I have a box of backup tapes from that era, which might be interesting. I even found a matching QIC-150 tape drive in the garage, but I didn't find the SCSI cables, terminators, interface card, etc. that would be needed to connect it to a modern machine, and they don't appear to be available.

I have a QIC-150 drive connected to my Sun Ultra 10.  Works fine. That said, it's hit or miss if tapes that old are still readable.

            - Michele