16 May
2005
16 May
'05
4:13 a.m.
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 19:44 -0700, Tom Jennings wrote:
On Sun, 15 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at
trailing-edge.com wrote:
On the heels of my foolish posting (see accompanying apology) this
sounds a bit off, but here goes:
But don't archivists make their archives available? Clearly, Don's
is not.
I'm not sure about making it physically available, but at least to do it
electronically costs money that might not be available. Plus of course
making disk images / rom images / scanning docs all eats up a lot of
time.
Regarding physical archives, most of us are probably quite approachable
I'd imagine - distance being a problem there. It sounds like Don was at
least organising and rescuing stuff that otherwise might have gone to
landfill; it's just a shame instructions weren't apparently left as to
what to do with everything after he'd gone.
cheers
Jules
are you a
packrat (as Don apparently was) or a collector?
Don was neither. He was a true archivist, in this case working
for the CP/M community.