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In article <9...@helens.Stanford.EDU>, j...@hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Joe Dellinger) writes:
>	While cleaning up some disks, we discovered this file that has
>the oldest modification date on our system:
> 1 hanauma> ls -la .info
>-rw-r--r--  1 toldi          36 Jul 28  1978 .info
> 2 hanauma> cat .info
>another one of those damn Canadians

  That's pretty old all right. What was the creation date on the file, or
does Unix not preserve that?

>	Somebody replaced someone else's (a Canadian student's) .plan with
>this file as a joke; when it was discovered it wasn't deleted but instead
>was moved to .info.

  That explains the content...

>Somehow this file has managed to survive over all the intervening 12 years,
>while being transferred from a PDP-11 to a VAX to a Convex C-1!

  That's quite a trip! Maybe you should get the file bronzed, :)  

>	I'm curious: is this an unusually old file to still have on the
>system? Do you have an older one? Does anybody have a file that dates
>unchanged back into the 60's, for example, that has been on active file
>systems the entire time?

  Not on this system, but there is a rather old account on another system,
the CIRCA cluster. Lemme spawn out and see if I can find the directory...

--------
  Zik-Zak> tell maple
  MAPLE> set def disk$user:[binary.agaroth]
  MAPLE> dir/date=(created,modified)

  Directory DISK$USER:[BINARY.AGAROTH]

  C.COM;1               8-JUN-1983 09:36:09.00   8-JUN-1983 09:36:10.00
  CHESS.EXE;1          29-JUN-1979 11:58:41.00   6-AUG-1980 11:58:41.00
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^^
  GHOST.COM;1          25-MAY-1983 13:46:53.00  25-MAY-1983 13:46:53.00
  HOLD.COM;1           22-JUN-1983 13:54:55.00  22-JUN-1983 13:54:55.00
  KEEPOFF.COM;1        23-JUN-1983 13:15:22.00  23-JUN-1983 13:15:22.00
  LITE.COM;1           15-OCT-1982 16:04:39.87  15-OCT-1982 16:04:41.50
  LOGIN.COM;1          13-JUL-1983 14:07:28.46  13-JUL-1983 14:07:29.33
  MULTI.COM;1          23-JAN-1983 22:19:14.81  23-JAN-1983 22:19:18.53
  PROC.COM;1           25-MAY-1983 14:36:43.00  25-MAY-1983 14:36:46.00
  TIME.COM;1           26-MAY-1983 14:58:52.00  26-MAY-1983 14:58:52.00
  X.COM;1              26-MAY-1983 15:00:00.00  26-MAY-1983 15:00:01.00
  ZBOX.PAS;1            2-AUG-1983 11:27:33.33   2-AUG-1983 11:27:37.07

  Total of 12 files.
  MAPLE> quit
  Zik-Zak> lo
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  The cluster is four different VAX machines now, but two of them (11/780's)
were running seperately years ago, I think starting in 1984 or 1983. Before
that, the account was probably residing on some other machine, I have no idea
what. Obviously not one with 1/100th second time stamping.
  I'm sure the dates are genuine because I talked to the user once and he 
asked questions about what had happened. He hadn't been logged in since 1985
or so!!

>	The official rules:

  I was never one much for rules.


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