🚀 go-pugleaf

Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
> 
>>>I never noticed this group before.
> 
>> It's supposed to be the group to announce events and for nightlife,
>> which no one could possibly figure out from the name.
> 
> Ha. I thought it was supposed to be for apartments or places/areas in the
> city to live in and discuss.
> 
> 
>> If you like this group, you'll really love chi.news.stats, where the scripts
>> have been borked for 15 years.
> 
> At least I remember posts in chi.news.stats, although I think all of them
> were from WWA (gagme). I never saw anything in chi.mail though.
> 
> When I was cleaning out Clybourn I found a box of old backup tapes, not even
> sure what they are, 4mm DAT maybe, whatever was SOTA in 1993/94. Wonder if
> any of the old /var/spool/news directories are on them. I know back then you
> could fit a whole week of usenet, including the binaries, on a single 600mb
> cdrom.
> 
> I think the tapes were 250mb, compressed. Wonder if I ever wasted the time
> to back up the news spool back then.
> 
> -bruce
> bje@ripco.com

ha. DAT tapes.

I just came across my IBM DAT drive, so assuming I have gnutar on my 
rs/6000, and it can still boot off its micropolis hard disks, I might be 
able to see what's on a backup I made in the late 1990s of who knows what.