18 Feb
2016
18 Feb
'16
7:34 a.m.
It's not a can of worms - it's one happy guy and one bitter guy.
I checked, and the bitsavers mirror is (roughly) 300gb, and that includes
the "bits" part. Otherwise it's about 230gb.
The manuals collections on archive.org include bitsavers, but also a few
other major locations and sets, and likely gets into the terabyte range.
A re-curated remix of all the materials is always welcome, but if it's an
arbitrary pile, it's not adding much.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Josh wrote....
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I'm willing to bet that this torrent is 100% stuff scraped from Bitsavers
and Archive.org (where the two don't already overlap, not to open up that
can-o-worms again.) So good news: it's already available online.
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Of course, classiccmp would be happy to host them.
I'd want to ensure that it's not just a copy of what is already being
hosted there though.... I hope Mike isn't raping up the classiccmp server :P
Mike - Can you share where these are coming from so we can determine if
it's already hosted, make sure the material is "ok" to host, and make sure
it's a good idea? There's other issues besides disk space and bandwidth to
consider....
J