On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 08:18:33PM +0100, Antonio Carlini wrote: > On 12/05/2021 13:58, Malte Dehling wrote: > > > > Here are the links to the relevant archive.org uploads: > > > > https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-07 > > https://archive.org/details/vms-ad-condist-1989-07 > > https://archive.org/details/vms-condist-1989-07 > > https://archive.org/details/vms-condist-1989-11 > > https://archive.org/details/digital-standards-1993-03 > > > > Let me know what you think! > > Thanks. Nice work, particularly grouping them together, pulling out the > JPEGs and seemingly mounting them to suck out the CD_CONTENTS.DAT! > > As a reward for your hard work here are a few more for you :-) > > I've now uploaded ag-nc67a-re.tar.xz, ag-mn36d-re.tar.xz and > ag-pcy4c-xe.tar.xz. > > These are: > > AG-NC67A-RE - VMS Online Documentation Library 1989-03 Disc 1 of 1 > AG-MN36D-RE - VMS Consolidated Software Distribution 1989-05 Disc 1 of 1 > AG-PCY4C-XE - InfoServer V2.0 Software Base Level 10 1991-11 Disc 1 of 1
Perfect! Thanks so much :-) The first two are now also on archive, the InfoServer CD will follow soon: https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-03 https://archive.org/details/vms-condist-1989-05 I plan on updating the description for the CONOLD CDs with a list of the books included. That probably means writing a script to extract that information from the DECW$BOOKSHELF files. > AG-MN36D-RE in particular took over 5 days to rescue. In the end it managed > 99.41% and couldn't get any more data off the CDROM when run with -R. So, > despite the internet saying use 2000 and 3000 grit sandpaper, I went against > all the advice and recklessly tried a seven minute does of 1500 frit > sandpaper, followed by the usual vigorous polishing. I've included a > "before" image of the rear (non-label) side of the CDROM and a triangular > "blemish" is clearly visible near the centre and extending out into the data > region. 2000 grit didn't touch it, I could still feel it afterwards with my > fingernail. 1500 grit wiped it away completely and ddrescue got to work > immediately and took just 10 minutes or so to recover the missing data > (apart from 4096 bytes). Wow, thanks a lot! You are putting in some serious effort here! I'm glad this worked so well :-) Cheers, Malte -- Malte Dehling <mdehling at gmail.com>