MSDN CD disposition

[steve shumaker]

On 10/31/2018 4:58 AM, geneb via cctech wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
>
>> At 04:29 PM 10/29/2018, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>>> There's a ton of them on the IA already.  I would /love/ to get the 
>>> early ones.  My collection begins at 1997 so I would *eagerly* take 
>>> anything previous to that.
>>
>> Oh, I'd guess I have them all from '94 to 97 at least,
>> including the non-Intel MIPS and Alpha sets.
>>
>> Does the Internet Archive had an easy tool that lets me put a CD
>> in my drive and it'll tell me if they already have it?
>
> You can try searching for the discs you have to see if they're already 
> there, but as far as I know, there's nothing automatic like that.
>
> g.
>
in fact, when asked about duplicates, they will tell you that they 
specifically encourage duplicates as a form of redundancy and will 
encourage duplicate submissions for any material they have.


Steve