18 May
2005
18 May
'05
1:37 p.m.
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I haven't had much to say about the CP/M archive,
but as I do have a
few machines (Kaypro and S-100), I have an interest in what happens.
Personally, I don't see why we shouldn't start a parallel archive,
just in case, at least of some of the more common formats. It would
be a life's work (literally) to build an archive as extensive as
Don's, but for most of us here, I would think that a dozen or two
disks would meet most of our needs (Kaypro, Osbourne, NorthStar...)
I've heard a lot of people talking about this over the past couple days
but no action. It doesn't take much to launch an archive. Jay already
offered the digital space and the bandwidth. Someone should take a
leadership role here. I would but I don't think I'm keen to add yet
another project to my agenda.
If everyone started contributing en masse to a parallel archive, what Don
had could be duplicated in 6 months.
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