Hi John-

It appears that we have them all in our library.

If no one else has gotten the papers for you yet, please let me know.

Thanks,

Steve Cooper
Allegro Consultants, Inc.
(408) 252-2330 x172


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:56 PM, John K. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Does anyone have copies of the INTEREX North American Conference
> Proceedings from 1985 through 1989?  I'm trying to find copies of papers I
> wrote and presented at INTEREX conferences in the 1985 through 1989 time
> period.  If someone does have copies of the Proceedings, please look for
> papers written by me, John Korb.  If you find them, please let me know as
> I'd like to arrange to get either scans of the Proceedings cover an my
> papers, or photocopies if scans are not possible.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Side Note:
> I originally wrote and saved the papers using an HP 150B, saving to 3.5"
> 1.44 MB floppies.  Eventually I copied them to a hard drive on a 486 PC,
> then to a CD, assuming the CD would be readable many years later.
>
> Unfortunately, the CD is unreadable in any drive I've tried, and I've
> tried more than a dozen drives.  The closest I've gotten to reading the CD
> was with an LG Blu-ray burner, model HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH12LS39, which can
> read about a third of the files on the CD.  That LG Blu-ray burner is the
> ONLY drive that can read ANYTHING from the CD.
>
> I next tried firing up the HP 150B.  While the HP 150B works and will boot
> to DOS 3.2 from the floppy that was sitting in its drive, it can't read the
> floppy with the papers on it.  It tries, but it can't read it.
>
> I found the old 486 in the basement.  It was retired when its "C" drive
> started sounding wining and burned the CD just before it was shut down for
> the last time.  The 486 and drive hadn't been spun up in years.  I pulled
> its hard drive (a 1.6 GB IDE drive) and plugged it in to an old Windows XP
> box, but it lasted less than three minutes before it failed, screaming as
> it died.  Thus, it looks like paper is probably the only media readable
> twenty plus years later.
>
> John
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