On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: SGI's fancy term for a 240VAC->48VDC power supply. OLS = "on-line switcher." Early revs (1992-1993) had a habit of catching fire and they were recalled and replaced in 2000-ish. My Onyx/Challenge XL Rack requires two. One recently sparked shattering a rectifier of some sort; both mine are 1992-3 revisions. My soldering skills are weak and I'm not going to attempt repair myself. I can't figure out the serial number to my system. I figure I can add the serial number to my support folio account at SGI and see if they'll still honor the recall 13-14 years later. Rackable may have a warehouse full of of these things somewhere (one can dream.)

My bad, here. I grabbed the subsites and in doing so, I didn't get /irix and /downloads. Fixing that now, will have the item updated when it's done. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Pete Plank <nekonoko at mac.com> wrote:

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, steve shumaker wrote: "Yes." :) Although "appropriate" is met by, "is it data?". g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, steve shumaker wrote: If you've got something that you'd like to see available on archive.org, just upload it and then let the admins know what collection you'd like it added to. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

At this point, I either take donations of vintage software or I am tipped off there's still places online serving it up. My own estimation is that FTP sites are in danger, or at least well on the way to being dead, with some notable exceptions. In some cases, we are finding obscured but helpful mirrors of data, making it worthwhile to grab a copy and store it in http://archive.org/details/ftpsites for later. While yes, there might be fresher mirrors out there, it's sometimes surprising what is gone or shifted or has bowdlerized out portions of the original sites over the years. By grabbing these capsules, we make the data available in some way. For example, FTP.ARL.MIL has gone through radical change since the beginning years, KOMKON.ORG does not actually respond at the moment, and so on. I hope that the FTP sites stay up forever, but life is showing they won't. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:11 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote: