This repository contains code, software, and related files developed for the CP/M operating system, created from 1979-1984. It was hosted on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT-MC (Macsyma Consortium) computer and available on the ARPANET. This was a freeware and shareware "archive" maintained by Frank J. Wancho and Keith Petersen. When the Macsyma Consortium was dissolved in 1983, the files were moved to SIMTEL20. The files available in this repo are a part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tapes of Tech Square (ToTS) collection at the MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC).
The files within this directory are the CP/M archive specific files from 24 different tape image files in the ToTS collection. Files are from ITS backup tapes. Files were stored on a PDP-10 timeshare computer running the ITS operating system.
Files were extracted from the tape images using the itstar program. The filenames have been adapted to Unix conventions, as per the itstar translation. The original filename syntax would be formatted like, FJW; LMODEM 258, for example. All files have been placed into this artificial cpm directory for organizational purposes. The files extracted from the tape images were put into sub-folders with a corresponding name to the tapes listed in the tapeimagelist.txt file.
221 files are ITS archive files within this extracted set. Digital Archivist, Joe Carrano, extracted the contents of these files into directories of the same name, one level up from their location using the itsarc program. The program replaced the / with a { in the filname of cpm/7005964/ar13.news/sig{m.jun81. It also added the ~ in place of spaces in cpm/7005964/ar2.hlpfil/<urhlp.~~~~~7.
This file is metadata about the CP/M archive files, using the CodeMeta Project schema.
This file is the readme detailing the content and context for this repository.
A file tree listing the files in the cpm directory showing the original file timestamps as extracted from the tape images. The cpm/7005176/cpm/ar66.micnet file timestamp did not extract properly. Within the ITS archive files mentioned above, sig{m.jun81 filename replacement caused the modified date to be adjusted. <urhlp.~~~~~7 file has a timestamp that is not recognized properly. All of these files are most likely from the same date range as the rest of the files.
A list of all the tape images and their paths in the ToTS collection that these files came from.
A list of all the ITS archive files and their paths in this repo.
[filename], MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tapes of Tech Square (ToTS) collection, MC-0741. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts. swh:1:dir:6b6eefeb4e432ef59218495f26adb68cc0bf383c
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Thanks to Lars Brinkhoff for help with identifying these files.