telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (12/15/90)
Long time readers of the Digest will recall that the Archives (and the Digest) were formerly located at Boston University. During 1988, because the archives was beginning to grow quite large (but only about one-third as large as it is now!) Jon Solomon was requested by management at bucs.bu.edu to compress the archives as much as possible. We did this on all the very old issues. When the archives was moved to MIT last year, many of the old files which had been compressed at bucs.bu.edu were somehow damaged, and we were unable to uncompress them. We were able to only recover about half of the old issues. Beginning late in 1988, the method of storage was changed, and all issues from the last part of Volume 8, plus all of Volumes 9 and 10 are intact. Through trial and error since, several more old issues have been reconstructed, but the early issues from Volumes 1 through 6 (and part of 8) are still spotty, with several missing issues. I am happy to announce the recovery of several more issues from Volume 4. It turns out that a reader, Ken Dykes <kgdykes@aftermath.waterloo.edu> had a lot of the old issues on tape storage from Volumes 2, 3 and 4. I've scanned through those and picked out several dozen issues mostly from Volume 4 which we had not previously been able to reconstruct. They are now filed away for your reference. Volume 5 was kind of messy in the way it was archived to begin with, and it has also been reconstructed where possible. My thanks to Ken Dykes for this contribution to the Archives. Still needed are copies of issues from Volume 1 (especially issues 1, 2, and 3), and copies of issues from Volume 2, 3 and 8. Patrick Townson