20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
7:07 p.m.
woodelf wrote...
Well I think a DVD rom of bitsavers is your best buy
for your $$$.
I'm guessing "a DVD rom" of bitsavers runs around 15 or so DVD's right
now.
Plus, I've made no secret of the fact that if someone wants a large section
of bitsavers, just email me and I'll go burn a DVD from the central
repository rather than have someone attempt to suck up 80mpbs. No matter
what anyone else may think, I do not get happy when that happens if it is
easily avoidable :) Yes, I have the bandwidth, I just find it wasteful. And
since it is my bandwidth, I do get to say how I feel about it ;)
Lastly.... a new service we're prototyping for my ISP involves DVD "burning
on demand" of archival files. We'll have a rather huge amount of disk space
hooked up to a multidrive tower of DVD burners. Through a web interface,
people will be able to select files they want and they will automatically be
"burned to order" and mailed to them. This is completely unrelated to
Bitsavers, but I see absolutely no reason that the contents of bitsavers
couldn't be made available to the san/burners for some folks.
Jay