Computer History WIki up

I'd like to announce the Computer History Wiki at http://toresbe.dreamhosters.com/wiki ! I realize that there has been some discussion previously about setting up a computer history wiki, and that Jay has decided against hosting one himself, favouring a knowledge base arrangement. I am involved in the Norwegian Computer History Society, and we have a MediaWiki website which we are very happy with. However, being a Norwegian organization, the page is... well, it's in Norwegian. I found myself really enjoying adding technical information, guides, etc, but I was very frustrated by the fact that the text would only reach a very limited audience, and only had a very limited potential for revision by others - at most, our audience consisted of Scandinavia. Recently I bought a very cheap hosting deal from Dreamhost, which so far has worked splendidly. I therefore decided to use this to set up an English computer history wiki and gauge the response. So far, this has been very encouraging - we are up to 80 articles now, and it's growing very fast. The chief difference between this wiki and Wikipedia is that this is not aiming to be an encyclopedia of formal defintion articles, but an information base for articles of all kinds - handy hints and tips, practical guides, tutorials, quick introductions, cheat sheets, advice, stories, you name it. My hope is that this page could become a resource for people on all ends of the classiccmp knowledge scale. The wiki is currently hosted on a temporary domain, since I did not want to spend my free domain (included in the hosting deal) if interest turned out to be minimal. Well, it hasn't, and I'm seriously considering registering a domain very soon. Currently, the wiki has a strong DEC minicomputer bias, because all three of the current active editors are DEC fans. With time, I hope this bias becomes less apparent, and that people will add information about micros, other minis, mainframes, peripherals, terminals, etc, etc. Again, the URL of the wiki is: http://toresbe.dreamhosters.com/wiki Regards, Tore Sinding Bekkedal