[TUHS] Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Jan 26 22:01:18 AEST 2023


Amen to that.  There are tape recovery services; old X versions
would be worth having online somewhere, for the history.

Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Lars,
>
> > Jim Gettys says he has old versions of X on tapes.
>
> If you know Jim, you may want to prod him to shift the data to more
> modern media if those tapes are old.
>
> Rob Pike wrote of magnetic tapes he had which could no longer be read.
> The coating had failed off IIRC.  I tried to find the text but failed.
> Perhaps it was on one of those Google+, Posterous, ... transient things.
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.


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