From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rudi.j.blom@gmail.com (Rudi Blom) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 14:14:34 +0700 Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) In-Reply-To: <20160801010846.GA15571@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20160801010846.GA15571@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: My 'incident' was around 1985 if I remember correctly. A time people and border guards started to realise the possible value of what was on such funny things like diskettes. Also I crossed 'National' borders. Now that can be tricky even today :-) On 01/08/2016, John Cowan wrote: > > I carried an RK05 disk full of proprietary software from West Orange NJ > to a client in Kansas City back in 1977. Airport security existed, but > it wasn't as anal it is today. So when I told them they couldn't X-ray > the disk, it might scramble it, they wanted to do a physical inspection -- > but I told them if they opened the disk they'd get dust in it and ruin it. > Finally they took my word for it. > > When the disk got to the client's, it was completely scrambled anyway. > I went back home, and next week my partner went out with a stack of 5.25s. > It took him twenty hours to set up the client's system (I don't remember > if it was a PDP-8 or a PDP-11), but the job got done. >