I’ve been digging out all the old boxes figuring out what I’ve got and what I did last time with Trundle. Ah the memories, but faded and incomplete. If only I’d kept better records!

I’ve got the original vehicle, but bits of the control system have been removed, and I can’t seem to find all I think I should. Never mind, the bit I really want is the original firmware - but where would that be?

I’m not even sure when I did this thing - it seems to be somewhere in the region 1998 - 2002 - certainly before I got my current desktop computer, and I haven’t still got the machine I was working on in the original state, even if I could remember which of many I’ve had in the past I was working on at the time.

I must have made backups of this stuff I spent so much time on? Apparently not! I’ve got a corrupt CD saying ‘pre Linux big backup 26/7/01‘ which sounds hopeful as one of the contender machines got reformatted with FreeBSD. I also found a ZIP disk with a backup of my htdocs folders from the websites I was running then, including several development projects alas not including trundle.

So it looks like I’ve lost the sourcecode - apart from a dusty manky remins of the vehicle all I have to show for it is a faded Polaroid photo.

The moral of this story - keep backups, and preferably in a format you can get to them again in the future - and your best chance is if you publish stuff to the web.