UniPlus VT disk image

[rayarachelian]

Here's a sanitized copy of the UniPlus disk image from VT. There's a bunch of homework files on there, which are fun to look at.I haven't removed the student's names, however they contained SSNs which are PII, so had to sanitize those.
I used this tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbe-/ - this accepts sed like substitutions, however it doesn't do ranges, so I couldn't do something like

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bbe -e "s/[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/xxx-xx-xxxx" UniPlus-ProFile-VT.dc42 -o UniPlus-ProFile-VT-sanitized.dc42
- instead, I had to first fish out each SSN, by running:

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strings diskimage.dc42 | egrep "[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" to get each of the SSNs, and then I ran bbe against those specific SSNs to replace them with xxx-xx-xxxx.
This disk is bootable in LisaEm RC4 and newer, (though, again, RC4 is broken for macos and windows.)

[compu_85]

It looked like this machine was one which had a printer hooked up to it, so there's remains of other student's homework files on the disk.

In the Guest user folder, the Othello game was the original owner's senior project at VT. I actually managed to track him down on Facebook, he still lives in Virginia!

Here's what he had to say:

So, my freshman class for computer science in 1985 - this was the first year they mandated the CS majors buy a computer. Freshman class - Virginia Tech - 1985. Virginia Tech bought them all and we bought from VT.
One of our main projects for our "Software Engineering" class was a team project.  We worked as a team to provide an interface to play Othello with diff play modes - beginner, medium, advanced. That would be neat if you can find that...  try it...  see how you do...

-Jason