Taking control of your collection

On February 5, Claude.W wrote: ...until the person putting the stuff online decides "nobody needs this old stuff anymore" and takes it down. And MANY companies are famous for the "we don't want to SELL these anymore so we don't want to tell anyone about them" bullshit. Having been involved with the world-wide web from its beginning, it makes me sick to point this out...but the WWW is primarily a SALES tool nowadays. The fact that we get information from it that is actually useful is a pleasant side-effect. What is driving it is SALES. Suits figuring out more efficient ways of taking peoples' money. Nothing more. If everyone takes the "someone else will maintain this information" attitude, who will maintain the information? We ALL must take responsibility for this. Every one of us who cares about it. And highly educational. I read a very interesting article in an issue of BYTE from 1984 while eating dinner last night. It compared a whole slew of 32-bit processors that were due to be introduced that year. The specific information was interesting from a historical perspective, but it was also very useful because understanding what drove our technology to where it is now an often help understand CURRENT stuff more completely. What is life for if you can't enjoy it? -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf