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From: Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.crypt.random-numbers
Subject: Re: The Marsaglia Random Number CD-ROM needed
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 04:12:29 +0000
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On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 19:15:27 +0100
Chax Plore <ftilojim@tznvy.pbz> wrote:

> Good day, everyone,
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> I am searching for untouched version of George Marsaglia's Diehard=20
> CD-ROM. By "untouched" I mean bit-identical ISO copy of original CD-ROM=20
> disc.
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> Of course I found many copies of CD-ROM contents in Internet, but I also=
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> found that some of them are different between each instance - starting=20
> from details like different EOL format in source code files, and up to=20
> errors like some files totally omitted or being binary different from=20
> each other. This is too much for my OCD. I don't trust Internet copies
> I found anymore.
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> I think sci.crypt is a good place to ask for potential owners of this=20
> disc. If it will be found, I plan to upload it to archive.org to=20
> preserve for eternity this undisputably important piece of computer histo=
ry.
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> I planned to post my request on sci.crypt.random-numbers, but it has no=20
> activity.
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> More info, including photo of original disc is available at
> https://github.com/jeffThompson/DiehardCDROM
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> With kindest regards,
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> Chax Plore
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* bump *

Did you find your seek?

The project was tied to the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-88=
07976 and DMS-9206972.

If you pull the public grant info and contact the named authors and adminis=
trators, you might be able to get the whole food chain of everyone that con=
tributed, then begin going down the list to contact them one-by-one.

See NSF grant award info:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=3D8807976&HistoricalAwards=
=3Dfalse

The NSF should have archived copies of the original CD-ROMs and research da=
ta. A FOIA request might help.

Also you might check with Florida State University's research and IT depart=
ments and track down the contacts named in the grant award.

Then there is the archived web site for the project:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160125103112/http:/stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/

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