Al wrote: It's not so bad. I'm quite used to getting slashdotted. The net bandwidth out of my site is really tiny but it's fundamentally there to serve good stuff up, and without a doubt bitsavers is good stuff. I suspect folks trying to download, oh, say the 1981 Tektronix catalog would be very dissatsifed with the bandwidth out of my site, if they want the document in faster than a couple hours. Occasionally we get into discussions about mirroring for geographic redundancy and I support all efforts to do so, even if it sucks up my bandwidth. Only rarely do I stay up at night worried about bandwidth. But I do stay up at night worrying about what would happen if some server filled with good stuff became suddenly unavailable. We have archive.org and Google's cache as good starts but I think they don't necessarily suck up tape images. I do notice that google has sometimes been building its indices with OCR from scanned PDF documents. Tim.