3 May
2011
3 May
'11
7:04 p.m.
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
I can't help you specifically but I note that that
tape would've held some
posts from mid-1990 and want to wonder out loud:
Wonder if the same posts were on the "Usenet CD-ROM's" that were sold (or
maybe just discussed) in the early 90's.
"Sterling Software" is one name associated with that but I also remember a
Vancouver BC based company doing similarly.
Likely I just replaced an unreadable tape with an unfindable CD. I have no
idea if the "sell-usenet-on-CD's" ever actually sold any.
I remember the company in Walnut Creek, California selling them. When I was
stationed on an Aircraft Carrier between '94-96 I'd buy at least some of
them, and put them on the laptop I had running Linux. Mostly I bought the
Linux CD's, but I also got a few others like USENET, CP-M, OS/2, and others.
All my old CD's from that timeframe are something else I should probably get
put together in one location. At the moment they're spread throughout the
garage, with probably one or two in my Office.
Zane