20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
7:39 p.m.
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 01:53 am, Jim Battle wrote:
After Don Maslin's death and the apparent loss of his collection of disks
and images, there was a lot of group discussion of how to go about
collecting such a library again and this time using a format that wasn't so
obscure as teledisk (which was I'm sure motivated by goals, such as
compactness, that aren't a constraint for pure archival) and that was
maintained. That was replaced by the sound of crickets, then Dave went and
did something about it. Not only did he write the software, he had a good
start on many boot disks that are not available anywhere else (that I'm
aware of anyway).
That name sounds real familiar to me for some reason, but I can't quite place
it...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin