Re: Preserving old Emacs versions

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/19/2016 01:01 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> We made backup tapes back then, but it is hard to read them
> and I am not sure where they are now.

If you can find the tapes, I suggest contacting the Computer History 
Museum <http://www.computerhistory.org/>. If they are DECtapes there's a 
good chance they will still be readable, as that is a robust format. 
Even IBM 9-track tapes might be mostly readable. I wouldn't wait too 
long, as the tapes will continue to degrade.