Better to have a backup to have someone to start scanning everything again.

John Robertson wrote: Regardless of the selling aspect, the implication was that they hadn't asked Al first before making the content available. Although part of me wants to give them the benefit of the doubt, in that someone may have given them the content and implied that they were the original source of it, rather than bitsavers. I've had no end of folk give me photos and scans with the implication that they did the work, only to find out later that they got it from elsewhere by whatever means. Finding content on bitsavers can be a bit tricky sometimes though, given that various things are OEMed or sold to different companies over the years, or that the company which made a product can be obscure (such that the product name is well-known but the company is not*, and a scan is logically filed under the company name). Filenames aren't always obvious or immediately intuitive either - but then it can be hard giving a meaningful filename which doesn't end up being huge! * I always seem to do that with OMTI bridge boards whenever I need the manual and don't have my paper copy to hand... [file all of the above under observation, not criticism :-) ] cheers Jules

John Robertson wrote: l's point is the leech is SELLING copies of the files on CD/DVD So how do we know they came from bitsavers? MD5sums? Gordon

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Whatever this guy is smoking, I want 3 kilos :o)