heather@maui.cs.ucla.edu (06/07/89)
At the San Diego USENIX, someone had kindly set up a tape drive and allowed attendees to copy GNU and X11 software to tape. Do any of you happen to know whether a similar set up will be available at the Baltimore USENIX? If so, has the software been updated since January in San Diego? I'd like to bring tapes to copy any new GNU stuff, but don't want to lug them around unless there's a good reason! Thanks, Heather Burris, UCLA
tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (06/08/89)
In article <24580@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> heather@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes: |At the San Diego USENIX, someone had kindly set up a tape drive |and allowed attendees to copy GNU and X11 software to tape. |Do any of you happen to know whether a similar set up will be |available at the Baltimore USENIX? If so, has the software |been updated since January in San Diego? I'd like to bring tapes |to copy any new GNU stuff, but don't want to lug them around |unless there's a good reason! | |Thanks, | |Heather Burris, UCLA It's unclear, at this moment, if there will be either enough disk space or a 9 track reel tape drive to support attendee copying of software brought by other attendees. It's still a possibility, and Sun catridges look like the most likely media. No promises. Even so, I will have both sets of GNU UNIX tapes with me: the three 9 track 1600bpi reels and the three QIC-24 Sun catridges. The ~100 meg of GNU and X11R3 is on each set. The 'someone at San Diego' was Brian Kantor, a volunteer. He had enough resources in San Diego to put a tape copying system together. Brian: Thanks again! This kind of effort (as does most efforts around the USENIX Association) needs a volunteer to put it together. Tasks include: - locating the equipment. Either from local sources, or from a vendor who is willing to lend it (usually for the publicity). - get the equipment to USENIX, get it running, and arrange for it's security and proper operation. Get it taken down, packed up and returned safely. - get approval from the USENIX Board to cover any expenses: shipping, cables, inducements for volunteer facilities minders, etc. You don't have to do all this yourself, just see that it gets done. ;-} Cooperating with the terminal room coordinator would be a natural. If you or any one else wishes to become that volunteer for Washington ... If anyone can provide a machine to do tape copying in Baltimore, let me know, and I'll put you in touch with the people you need to work with. enjoy -len
wcs) (06/10/89)
]In article <24580@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> heather@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes:
]|At the San Diego USENIX, someone had kindly set up a tape drive
]|and allowed attendees to copy GNU and X11 software to tape.
Would it be possible to talk somebody at Sun into allowing people to
make tapes at their booth during or after the vendor shows?
9-track is nice, but enough people have access to Suns that Sun
cartridge tapes will do if nobody has a 9-track there.
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