[TheForge] History of The Forge/OT

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

actually, hard disk are pretty permanent. it is pretty easy to recover
data from a hard drive even if it has been through a degausser. for many
years i had a surplus glove box incubator in which i repaired many a
hard drive.

in the case of the theforge wugate archives they probably exist on a mag
tape in some storage vault. wustl.edu has had a fairly good disaster
recovery plan for many years. there have been several mirrors of
wuarchive.wustl.edu over the years.

it would have been nice if abana had had the foresight to archive
theforge over the years. that unfortunately did not happen. perhaps now
abana will begin to archive the qth.net epochs.

i am still following some leads as to possible locations and people who
may have theforge wugate archives. so all is not lost yet.

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Stephen McGehee wrote:

stephen> 
stephen> Ain't it funny how we have come to believe in the permanence of data
stephen> written on something as slippery and  impermanent as a hard disk?  An
stephen> Archive? If you were to break one of those suckers open, you could not
stephen> even scrape off the ones and zeros onto a clean sheet of paper and hire
stephen> zealots to piece them together like the contents of a paper shredder.
stephen> Ten year old information?, lets see, that stuff was on the machine that
stephen> died in '97 or was it '86 and on the old Kaypro II ?  I have an old,
stephen> solid aluminum, portable Kaypro with a huge 16 MB hard drive, wonder
stephen> what's on that disc?
stephen> 

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terry l. ridder ><>