23 Feb
2015
23 Feb
'15
11:31 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:52:24PM -0600, John Foust wrote:
At 09:21 AM 8/12/2014, Al Kossow wrote:
[...]
> That would be a good thing. Early Walnut Creek
CDROMs aren't very common. It
> looks like I only have ten from 1992 to 1994.
I've got a few knocking about in storage which contain early Linux
distributions. I'm not sure they're particularly rare or unusual, which is why
I haven't bothered to dig them out and make images yet.
For the record, I found my Walnut Creek AB20 CD and
sent an ISO to Jacob and
Al. I'm cleaning and hunting, so I might find Aminet, too.
archive.org contains a full set of Aminet CDs from 1 through 52 (the first two
being Walnut Creek) and also Aminet Sets 1-3 and 9, and Aminet Games. The first
Aminet CD also seems to contain a mirror of AB20 and can be downloaded via
https://archive.org/details/aminet-walnut-creek-1.
https://archive.org/details/aminet-2 actually contains Aminet 12, and so you'll
be wanting https://archive.org/details/aminet-walnut-creek-2 for Aminet 2. My
physical CD of Aminet 3 has different contents to the version on archive.org,
and although I can see *what* the differences are, I'm unclear on the *why*. My
other handful of Aminet CDs are bitwise identical.
At some point I really should figure out how to provide errata and new uploads
for archive.org.