The PEDIT4 and PEDIT5 file systems would have been on the regular backup schedule, even if 'blank' or unused on the system at the time any good admin would make sure they would have been dumped to tape. Just as a CYA thing.
Therefore as those tapes were migrated to newer storage formats they would have been archived with the other three major file systems. Odds are that the data exists, somewhere. But in a file system stream that no one knows how to read.
This reflects back on how we are about to loose some of the CPM games due to the lack of hardware that can read the storage media of the times. 9 Track is bad, 8 inch is bad, of all the words of wisdom writen since the age of the word processor began, how much never got committed to paper? What have we lost? Is that elusive theroy of everything missing in action? I guess we will never know.
The PEDIT4 and PEDIT5 file systems would have been on the regular backup schedule, even if 'blank' or unused on the system at the time any good admin would make sure they would have been dumped to tape. Just as a CYA thing.
Therefore as those tapes were migrated to newer storage formats they would have been archived with the other three major file systems. Odds are that the data exists, somewhere. But in a file system stream that no one knows how to read.
This reflects back on how we are about to loose some of the CPM games due to the lack of hardware that can read the storage media of the times. 9 Track is bad, 8 inch is bad, of all the words of wisdom writen since the age of the word processor began, how much never got committed to paper? What have we lost? Is that elusive theroy of everything missing in action? I guess we will never know.
-Cecil
-Cecil