Re: 2009 in review

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

I've been penning out a plan to do some kind of massive repository of
Apple II related stuff and it's come to the front line a little more
now, once I get some other behind the scenes things rolling, I'll have
some more announcements and maybe some appealing. There's not many
folks with the vast stash of stuff like I've ammased over the years,
and years, and I would like to see at least a record of it in archival
quality as both a visual record, and a reference for years to come on
how we, the Apple II got to where we are, and what was saw along the
way.

The amount of machines being tossed, scrapped, and what not has
probably waned massively, and we have definately returned to the
kitchen table and zip lock bag era of the early 80's, but in with
that, I'd suffice to say that the Apple II along with other 8 bit
platforms of it's day are the last ones that came with "free"
technical data in that they were "open", and the Apple II the most, of
those- because of this, things are able to be adapted to the Apple II
in ways that no one would have ever imagined before.

I'm pretty meticulously anal about archiving, packaging and
distribution of materials so I've got experience there. The goal is a
database of material and Apple II specific software on par with that
of textfiles.com, and not a duplication of such, as along the way,
anything that fits into other archive/projects like that would be
cataloged and contributed to those specific areas as well.

..sounds like a big undertaking, and it is. But I think it can be done
if I can figure out the backing on it.

Tony