Don Maslin/Archiving system software (was: ftp archivesdisappearing?)

----- Original Message ----- From: "jim" <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 3:20 AM Subject: Re: Don Maslin/Archiving system software (was: ftp archivesdisappearing?) The problem seems to be having one person organize everything and keep everything. I look at what the Amiga comunity has done preserving their apps, games, and hardware. A group of people (some come and go over time) do the cataloging while users contribute disk images, box scans, hardware photographs and knowledge, etc. Everybody pitches in and the original material is not transfered while the archives are on the net for everybody. What I wanted to do with old 68k Mac material is start a website or ftp site and dump what I have in an organized manner and let others start contributing (and using what is available) so that everybody can get something from it and contribute when they can. Plenty of people have rare disks and items in their possession but have no place to send it. There are plenty of places on the internet where you can let people know about the project and get the word out (forums, newsgroups, swaplists, etc). Either you do the archiving as a community or you will never get anything done that will last.