[Geysers] Data from early GPS survey unearthed

[Mike O'Brien]

In answer to a number of inquiries, the 50 backup floppies are 3.5” floppies
that were created with Colorado Backup.  I don’t know which version, and
from what I read in various forums via Google, later versions of Colorado
Backup were unable to read backups made with earlier versions.  So
whoever reads them will probably have to point various version at the
disks until one of them works.  Certainly no current software will read
any version of Colorado Backup’s format.

There’s also the likely problem of the media having aged out.

Mike O’Brien

> On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:37 AM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Mike:
> 
> Do you know what software was used for the backup?  Are the disks 3.5
> or 5.25?
> 
> Dave
> 
>  On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 15:25 -0800, Mike O'Brien wrote:
>> A little history: back in 1993, I made shameless use of my position
>> as a magazine columnist at the time to inveigle Trimble Navigation
>> into loaning the NPS about $20,000 worth of survey-grade GPS
>> gear.  Rick Hutchinson, myself, and a bunch of my friends spent a
>> couple of weeks touring around the near back country doing a GPS
>> survey of places like the River Group, the Kaleidoscope area and the
>> Sprinkler Group.
>> 
>> After Rick’s death, no one was able to turn up the data files from
>> that survey.  I’ve got them on about 50 floppy disks, in a backup
>> format that can’t be read by any current software, so no joy there.
>> 
>> However, in clearing out a storage room, I came across a manila
>> folder with a bunch of hand-written tables of the reduced survey
>> data, giving the differentially corrected locations of a whole bunch
>> of features, together with some rough, hand-drawn sketch maps showing
>> the features that were surveyed.
>> 
>> I’m not sure who would most benefit from this data.  I’m looking for
>> suggestions as to whom I should send it to.
>> 
>> Mike O'Brien
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