17 Oct
2000
17 Oct
'00
11:49 a.m.
At 02:44 PM 10/17/00 -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
Well, that's hopeful...
Now, an unimagineable amount of message traffic,
much of it
having serious potential research use, is gone.
This site says the approximately 16 million postings from
October 1996 to late 1998 consumes 592 gigabytes:
http://www.archive.org/collections/index.html#Usenet but of course earlier posts are much less space.
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/index.html has May 1981-1982.
Of course, in those days, a lot of message traffic was on
The Source and CompuServe (didn't The Source grow from what
used to be called MicroNet?). Then later ('85-???), there was
also BIX (Byte Information eXchange).
I Miss BIX!
With 30 gig drives at less than $200...
Our firm is looking at optical NAS/SAN in ranges from about
300GB to 1.24TB, but I doubt we'll be able to help host these
archives...'
:-)
-dq
17 Oct
17 Oct
12:29 p.m.
New subject: Remember old Compuserve
Of course, in those days, a lot of message traffic was
on
The Source and CompuServe (didn't The Source grow from what
used to be called MicroNet?). Then later ('85-???), there was
also BIX (Byte Information eXchange).
I Miss BIX!
:-)
-dq
MicroNet-->CompuServe--> CompuServe2000 (a Part of AOL) 8-(
I miss CompuServe's PDP11 and Vax Sig.
I had a pretty good hoax/rumor going there about 1984/5
about Free DEC Employee MicroVaxII's with Stu Fuller of the Vaxsig.
You see... DEC glued dead uVaxII chip silicon to the annual report.
(Which employees got slightly ahead of some other stockholders...)
Boy did people offer me a lot for my uVaxII (which was pretty much back
ordered everywhere).
Bill
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12:28 p.m.
New subject: Remember old Compuserve
At 05:29 PM 10/17/00 -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
I miss CompuServe's PDP11 and Vax Sig.
After years of fighting anyone who attempted to redistribute
the messages from their forums and libraries, I would guess
that Compuserve or the new owners never kept or maintained
backups of all that valuable or at least historically
interesting data. If you want another windmill to tilt at,
try to find those nine-tracks...
I have gobs of old floppies where I meticulously archived
each of my vanilla-interface Compuserve sessions from 1985
until 1995 or so, but to conserve space I even edited them
as I read them, and they're mixed with my private e-mail
messages.
- John
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