7 Jul
2004
7 Jul
'04
7:40 p.m.
Martin Frost and Lester Earnest made a heroic and successful effort to transfer the Stanford AI Lab backup tapes from 7 track tapes to 9 track tapes. Heroic because the tape drives had got out of adjustment and sometimes had to be realigned several times to read a given tape. Later Martin Frost and Bruce Baumgart transferred the files to disk. Now I think the data are safe, because the files can readily be transferred when new kinds of memory replace the old. Anyone who had an account at the Stanford AI Lab can get his files back.