NADGUG Files

NADGUG was the North American Data General User Group. It published a magazine ‘FOCUS’, and maintained a tape archive of useful software which many sites used or adapted to their needs.

As far as I can tell, these dumps contain the last ever distributed versions of the NADGUG public domain/shareware software archive.

• /dg/ack.dmp
• /dg/benchmark.dmp
• /dg/bigbro.dmp
• /dg/ccomp.dmp
• /dg/concept.dmp
• /dg/crtedit.dmp
• /dg/dbcheck.dmp
• /dg/dumpload.dmp
• /dg/erp.dmp
• /dg/filemngr.dmp
• /dg/focus.dmp
• /dg/ftncvt.dmp
• /dg/games.dmp
• /dg/gutnick.dmp
• /dg/imslutil.dmp
• /dg/jag_util.dmp
• /dg/kermit.dmp
• /dg/look.dmp
• /dg/macros.dmp
• /dg/menudir.dmp
• /dg/misckerm.dmp
• /dg/msdos.dmp
• /dg/softrans.dmp
• /dg/spell.dmp
• /dg/tex.dmp
• /dg/timed_input.dmp
• /dg/vt100ker.dmp
• /dg/xfer.dmp

Of particular interest is focus.dmp which contains many articles and listings from the FOCUS magazine. Also, games.dmp contains many of the games traditionally found on non-production (a-hem!) MV machines 😏

You can extract these dumps on modern systems using the LoadG utility