p.s. The CD that I made from the zip disks has #rdfig and 2 May 2003 on it.
Sure enough, there we find logs of me chatting with nwalsh, danbri, and co
about archiving stuff, especially email...
https://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/rdfig/2003-05-02.html#T18-37-17
Here's hoping for time to make a WARC of those logs and stick it in
archive.org.
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:41 AM Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 8:24 AM Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm struggling to find source code for that X11 browser from the Convex
>> days.
>>
> ...
>
>>
>>
> I know I got a copy of my files (on a tape!) when I left Convex, and I
>> copied them to a zip drive at one point. Unfortunately, I don't recall
>> where I put the zip drive.
>>
>
> I found a copy of the zip disks, but no X11 browser.
>
> The files don't seem to go back far enough. It looks like I made the zip
> copies around 1994, though in some cases I back-dated some CVS files to
> 1992.
>
> CDs are so slow that I made a copy on an SD card. In doing so, I found
> small (6.1kB) read errors on the CD.
>
> [image: read-errors.png]
>
> Here's hoping I find time to filter out any confidential material and
> publish the rest soon.
> Meanwhile, for (my) reference:
>
> $ file zip-rescue.img; ls -sh zip-rescue.img ; sha1sum zip-rescue.img
> zip-rescue.img: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data ''
> 526M zip-rescue.img
> 94c6129bbcc3ffdddbc79fec7147a06185893a7d zip-rescue.img
>
> --
> Dan Connolly
> http://www.madmode.com/
>
>
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