I got email from a faculty member this afternoon who left our department at least 15 years ago. He was asking if I had hard copies of figures I'd generated on a project around 1990. I dug around and, not surprisingly, do not. But I was surprised to stumble across a 3-ring binder that I'd set up for that very task. It had some printouts of figures from that era with a hand-printed note about what the image was for. I do not remember doing that and I didn't do it for very long. I found a 1.4MB floppy with a l

I got email from a faculty member this afternoon who left our department at least 15 years ago. He was asking if I had hard copies of figures I'd generated on a project around 1990. I dug around and, not surprisingly, do not. But I was surprised to stumble across a 3-ring binder that I'd set up for that very task. It had some printouts of figures from that era with a hand-printed note about what the image was for. I do not remember doing that and I didn't do it for very long. I found a 1.4MB floppy with a label for the project in question. The files had been compressed with CompactPro and I was able to uncompress them but can't open the files. I have no idea what I used to generate them—MacDraw seems a likely culprit. I am gonna take the floppy home and see if I can open the files on an ancient Mac I still have (that probably won't boot but that's another story). I will try to save them as PDFs if I can open them. I'm probably wasting my time but am curious. So… :-)

2019-07-18T22:53:10Z