Bitsavers subscription

I credit Guy Sotomayor with the original idea, a few others chimed in as well. So I ran it by Al Kossow and this was officially blessed by him.... The plan is for me to offer subscriptions to bitsavers for a fee. The idea is that you can sign up for a subscription and pick just the specific directory trees you want, or the entire archive. You are initially sent a complete copy of all the trees you selected (or full archive) on the medium of your choice (CD, DVD, HD, etc.). From that point on - for the subscription fee - you are automatically shipped a set of updates periodically - say every month? - that keeps your own personal bitsavers archive up to date. Perhaps this automated system could also allow purchase of a "one-off" cd/dvd without a subscription containing just the files and/or directories that you tag.

Of course, if no one is interested, I'll just continue making the occasional trip downtown to the datacenter and burning CD's for people at no charge. It would be nice if there was interest in this though!