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GDMR thinks there are some old "new" filestore backups around on 1/2" tape, and some VMS ones too. He may have paper listings of his filestore code (the version that ran on the VAX and the Fred-machines, rather than Hamish or Paul's originals).
One of my vacation jobs was to write a user interface to the filestore to replace one of the older ones (I think JGH's?). It was in service for some years. I may have that on paper. Can't remember what host it was for. Either VMS or the Interdatas. In terms of history I guess it was the equivalent of an FTP client and I suspect predates FTP.
George wrote the comms part of the cubewar program I mentioned; he says Nick (I presume Rothwell) wrote the user interface.
He also reminded me that I wrote an independent version of the EMAS Command Line Interpreter. (The EMAS equivalent of a Unix shell; I can't remember all what it did different from the EMAS one; I think the main thing was that it had macro expansion and aliases). I did find some paper listings from my student days recently but haven't yet gone through them all. It may be in there. I don't personally have anything on magnetic media from when I was an undergrad at Edinburgh as it predates personal computers. It wasn't particular interesting; I'd rather we found the real thing.
-- Graham
George added: I have some of those on paper too. I've also found load of Fred-machine documentation, some filestore documentation, and a printout of the filestore source. And I've got some 1/2" tapes containing filestore backups, which might have some useful stuff on them if we could manage to read them off. I have a feeling that I put a load of things to the ERCC archive service too at one point. I've no idea if they're still around...
