Greg, Dave: This response was kind of rude, especially considering the kind of work that folks like me are doing at IBM to keep this stuff preserved. Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Reply-To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Fiche documentation for all of VM/ESA Date: 10/27/2023 06:29:59 PM Hello! Dave I agree. Now stop trying to bribe those snow leopards, as they have enough to eat from the life outside. Dan F, I'll certainly be at the meet tomorrow, that;'s what this thread is all about. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 5:35 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 10/27/23 17:31, Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The IBM Archives have a microfiche machine and can read the data and can digitize it. However, the archivist says that he would need to ask somebody in IBM Legal if it could be released back to the public. I know that IBM released most of their VM/ESA code with the product, but not all; stuff considered confidential was distrubuted as "OCO - Object Code Only" in the form of binary blobs of data. If the data this guy has he got from his job at the Toronto transit authority, then it is highly likely it is the code that was shipped with the VM/ESA tapes itself, and there is a high liklihood that it could be released back to the public. However, they _would_ need to reach out to somebody in IBM Legal about it first and get the all-clear.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is why it probably shouldn't go to IBM.
Just sayin'.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA