Root lists.

[ROOD DAVID S]

I still have one of the computers we used in those days, with all its
files intact.  If someone wants to look for those lists, you're welcome to
come to my office and do so.  You will have to remember how to use
pre-Windows operating systems.


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, R. Rankin wrote:

> > Is that list still available somewhere?
>
> Those lists were an intermediate product, as we were
> doing entries for the comparative dictionary.  If the
> raw files were retained they would be ASCII files for
> DOS and they would have been on the Project's computers
> at Boulder.  The very best of those computers were
> probably 386's and have probably long since been put in
> the dumpster.  I don't know if the disk files were
> saved or not.  It's possible.  John and David would be
> the ones to ask.
>
> The nice thing about retrieving those files would be
> the fact that we had culled through them and
> eliminiated nouns, adverbs, etc. already, I think.
>
> Bob
>