I was a teen-age packrat

[Alan Flippen <flippen@nytimes.com>]

Hi everyone,

Finally got into the parents' attic and found the following:

6 small magtapes from DEC, apparently a complete set of RSTS V7.0
distribution tapes;

2 unlabeled large magtapes, apparently personal or system backups;

About half-a-dozen manuals, including RSTS User's Guide, System Manager's
Guide and Programmer's Guide for V06B/C, "Introduction to Unix" by UDCC, and
a "Vax 11/780 Architecture Handbook" dated 1977-78;

TTDVR sources for V7.0-13 (with several DELTA modifications) and for V06V
(the "virtual terminal handler" of Dan Grim & co.), plus copies of the four
theses written in connection with that project (by Dan, Eric Nystrom, Rick
Burchnall and Joe Mattioni);

BASIC-PLUS, BP2 and assembly language source code for many DELTA-written
CUSPs (haven't had time for a detailed inventory yet; it appears to be
mainly, but not exclusively, those that I wrote or rewrote);

A couple hundred pages of KB0: output, much of it apparently a record of a
V7.0 SYSGEN session;

"Computers and Copyrights," by Anthony L. Eros, dated May 1, 1980, with a
copy of the text of the federal copyright laws;

Assorted FS-mails, system directories and account lists, mainly from 1979
through 1981;

Plus two boxes I've barely even opened.

Now, a question: Of what use is any of this? Has anyone succeeded yet in
reading magtapes that have been stored in an uninsulated attic for 15+
years? Does the KB0: stuff help in generating a DELTA RSTS for the
simulator? In other words, does anybody but me actually WANT any of this?
I'm not immediately going to throw it out, but sooner or later ...

Cheers,
Alan