[HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Mon Oct 29 22:46:42 PDT 2012


On 30 Oct 2012, at 01:43, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 10/30/2012 12:27 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Yeah, archiving this stuff would be a great idea.   Dump them all in a
format we'll all be able to read in a few years and store it on say,
amazon glacier. Who would want anything less than advertised eleven
nines for storing email?

I dunno, I'd want something more than storing it on someone else's
hardware.   Especially when that someone else is a huge corporation,
subject to corporate whims.   Your data could go away at any time.

So, backup to your tape library? :p

Yes.   But this one:

http://www.neurotica.com/misc/DECporn/DSC_0789.JPG

Yeah, I think that would be the better tape library to use. ;)


...not this one:

http://www.neurotica.com/misc/DECporn/DSC_0790.JPG

                        -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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