<div dir="ltr">The original work I did, I believe, during 1983 or possibly 1984,<div>and I don't have any possibility of recovering those bits.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe development was done on a VAX 11-750, *telnetting*</div><div>in with a Heathkit terminal.</div><div><br></div><div>But seriously, Tim Morgan and Karl Berry (and others) made so</div><div>many essential improvements, I can't imagine what use those old</div><div>bits could possibly be . . .</div><div><br></div><div>-tom</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:15 PM Peter Flynn <<a href="mailto:peter@silmaril.ie">peter@silmaril.ie</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 25/04/2019 00:06, Karl Berry wrote:<br>
> I am looking for the original Tomas Rokicki's TeX-to-C from 1987<br>
> <br>
> Out of curiosity ... why?<br>
> <br>
> according to<br>
> <a href="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/COPYING.POLICY" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/COPYING.POLICY</a><br>
> It should be here<br>
> <a href="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/</a><br>
> <br>
> Well, unfortunately, the Unix TeX tape from 1988 was apparently not<br>
> dumped in its entirety. I doubt any of the original mag tapes are still<br>
> around, or that they would be readable, or that there's any equipment to<br>
> read them. At least, I don't know of any way to go down that road.<br>
<br>
FWIW if the tape *does* exist and it's a QIC (quarter-inch cassette) <br>
tape, I have a drive here that works.<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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