On 11/3/18 5:17 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Nov 3, 2018, at 06:26, Pete Biggs <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think dump has changed anything in 20 years or so! And I
certainly can't see it changing such that it can't read old files -
that is, sort of, it's raison d'etre.
A bit off topic but...
Funny story, at a previous job, my boss was able to extract the data off tapes made in the 80s on tops-20 systems (iirc) with the version of restore on FreeBSD, but couldn’t get the tape drive to work on anything but Linux, so he had to extract the tapes on a RHL system then copy them to FreeBSD to read into the restore program. He actually was able to find the data he was looking for.
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Jonathan Billings
I actually had some of those tapes written on a tops-20 system as well
as ebcdic tapes written on an IBM 370. Though at one point I had 3, 7
foot tall racks filled with servers in my home, I decided I was never
going to get a TU77 or other similar tape drive, so I disposed of those
old tapes.
There is actually a KL10 running tops-20 still on the Internet today...
https://sdf.org/twenex/?
Nataraj
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