Update: But a permanent archive!

[snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson)]

grind.isca.uiowa.edu is _very_ willing to be host to a permanent apple2
archive volume/ftp (and maybe telnet?) upload/dnload service.  ISCA (Iowa
Students Computing Association) would prefer a 1Gig or larger (SCSI) volume.
They would maintain the volume and provide periodic tape backups etc.

grind.isca currently has 3 1Gig drives and one smaller drive.  I maintain
an archive of comp.binaries.apple2 files in the apple2 directory, currently
about 100Megs of apple8(bit) and apple16(bit) files.

I guess the rationale is if we provide a hard drive it would free up 100Megs
on the current drives :)

Anyway, I would be willing to serve as 'Att Gen Reno - the buck stops here'
decision maker (flame target?) for what stays and what gets dumped, but
I don't want to be the only manager.  I want HELP!  I want one or two
co-managers.  Maybe, Steve Chiang (who is somewhat familiar with uiowa),
or Jawaid B. (sp?, sorry I forget the spelling) would like to volunteer.
Who would like to volunteer?

Just a couple of hasty thoughts.  I don't want to replace cco.caltech, umich,
f.ms.uky, plains.nodak, and others as ftp sites entirely.  But as they need
to roll over files to free up space, they would hopefully make sure the files
exist on grind.isca or upload them there.  

I assume that we won't need 1Gig immediately.  Probably we could share the
drive with isca for files of generic use to other users such as TrueType
fonts, rSounds, MODS, Gifs, etc.  This would free up more space on isca volumes
for the 'other' platforms (shudderrrrrrrr).  Just trying to be friendly.

In summary, grind.isca.uiowa.edu is willing to provide a home for a large
apple2 file archive.  No maintaine fees!  Tape backups included!  Very little
administrative hassles, but I think we must remain clean and legal - just
PD and shareware files, etc.

Heck, while we are raising money, why stop at 1Gig?  Lets get a multi-gig
drive!  (Grind can only handle seven scsi devices, 4 are used currently,
leaving only 3.  That is why they prefer nothing smaller than 1Gig.  But I
guess they would hang a smaller drive on, but maybe less permanently :)

Philip V, Steve C, keep the donation list growing!

  --Steven Nelson           steven-nelson@uiowa.edu