20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
10:11 a.m.
On 20 Sep 2011 at 9:35, Al Kossow wrote:
here is the rate of growth of bitsavers since 2006...
Joking aside, Al, what you and the other folks at CHM is incredibly
valuable from a historic sense.
I've long thought that the paper is far more important in that
respect than the iron. The paper gives you a glimpse of what was in
the designer's mind, which would be otherwise very difficult to
discern from boards full of components.
And stuff is still vanishing. Yesterday, one of the posters from
Erik's VC forum was looking for a driver from Orchid, which was
acquired by Micronics and hosted on its ftp, which has vanished. The
Wayback machine was no help.
--Chuck