14 May
2005
14 May
'05
4:19 p.m.
Vernon Wright wrote:
For any newbies to the group:
1. Don Maslin (San Diego, CA) collected what I
believe is the largest and most complete archive
of CP/M/S100 operating systems amongst us 'hobbyists'.
It's beginning to sound like it might be easier to start a
new archive than try to recover this one.
Whatever is done, it should be easily distributed so a
similiar problem does not happen again. If one site
disappears, there should be several others ready to
continue.
Make all the images available over the internet, with
instructions on how to create "physical" versions,
as well as the software necessary to create them (source
code preferred).
Some of the disks would need special hardware to
recreate, but that could be documented with the
image, along with a list of anyone who has the
necessary equipment and would be willing to
recreate it for them.
Set it up so that it is easy for anyone to supply such
image files.
Maybe at some point, Don's library could be merged
back in.