[SPG_Active_Members] Long-term Digital Preservation: your technical questions of Sept. 1

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 10:27 -0700, Henry Lowood wrote:
> Yes, and we now have the converted files in the University Archives.
> For the Preserving Virtual Worlds project, we found interesting e-mail
> relating to the Stanford version of Adventure and related matters,
> including source code thought to be lost and the database.   Many
> thanks to Tom. 

I have a listing of the Adventure game for Univac 1108, dated 2 Mar 81.
Does anybody want it?

> By the way, he was able to fully convert SUMEX-AIM tapes archived up
> to around 1982, but has not yet been successful with the format used
> after that date. 
> 
> Henry L.
> 
> Feigenbaum wrote: 
> > 
> > On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Al Kossow wrote: 
> > 
> > > someone at Stanford had to recover some SUMEX 
> > > backups about five years ago, and had to solve the same problem
> > > (recovering 
> > > bsys backups). 
> > 
> > EAF: That person was Tom Rindfleisch (tcr at stanford.edu) 
> > 
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