To all with interest in IBM 7090

I think an important difference with Al's work on Bitsavers is that people all over the world are able to benefit from what he does. Real museums that people can visit *are* very important but they reach magnitudes fewer people. A global resource that is available online to people wherever they can access the net is *more* valuable from a practical standpoint. The document and software archive Bitsavers has is useful, not just interesting. And the materials that aren't directly useful today but are historically interesting and important are still accessible to everyone. Any computing museum today needs to make every effort to get as much of their doc and software online as well as in exhibits people can see and touch. Bitsavers is mirrored in many places and is no longer a single point of failure. To me it's an obvious choice for any software and doc. It has become the defacto clearing house for this kind of material and at this point it probably does more harm than good for other sites to start their own collections unless somebody can create a top level aggregator and index over all that. Bitsavers has become *the* place to look and this is a major strength; if things are spread all over the net it's very hard to locate them. Competition will hurt all of us, cooperation will benefit all of us. Thank you Al and everyone else who is archiving software and doc for posterity and who makes it available to those of us in far flung places. -- _ _ ._ _ _ <_> ___ _ _ ___ ___ ___ _| | ___ | ' ' || |/ | '| '_>/ . \/ | '/ . \/ . |/ ._> |_|_|_||_|\_|_.|_| \___/\_|_.\___/\___|\___.