Re: The ][ Archive Drive

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <Sep.23.09.18.19.1993.7789@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu> scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:

>So there is going to be a 1-gig drive with tons o' Apple ][ programs.

Yup.  cco.caltech is, as you probably know, full :)

>Are only people who donated getting (password) access?

Nada.  It's gonna be install on the grind.isca.uiowa.edu FTP site for
anonymous access.

>Who is going to maintain the drive, and what contingency plans are in
>place when the maintainer graduates/gets fired/finds a new job?

Uhh, Steve Nelson is gonna maintain it.  I don't know about contingency plans.

>What plan will be in place if someone in a lab spills soda on the drive
>or something like that?

The drive will be installed inside an HP/Apollo workstation.  If soda spills
on -that-, there will be far more for the person to worry about :)

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