[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Eager wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:36:22 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
> <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Try to remember that it's MUCH better to think BEFORE you DELETE!!
>> It's also a good idea to make a backup copy on floppy disk or CDROM.
>> It's amazing how often long forgotten files suddenly reacquire value!
> 
> I wrote a short macro file (not Macro) in 1972. I found I needed it 
> again last year.
> 
> It was a really tricky file to write....I kept five separate copies, 
> supposedly in 'safe' places, and lost four of them within a year due to 
> failings of others. The fifth copy was on a roll of paper tape in a box 
> under my bed! It spent years on one of our RA81s as well as several 
> other disks....
> 
> There are many other files I bitterly regret not keeping.
> 

Now, if you could just find a working paper tape reader. . . .  It has 
been fifteen or twenty years since I last saw one!

I have a small collection of 3-1/2" floppy disks that hold a small 
collection of useful stuff.  The same stuff is also stored on hard disk.
Hopefully, I'll be able to recover what I need when, and if, I ever need 
it again.