Re: More ideas for the permanent Apple II archive

[bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)]

taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>    I was talking to Terry Steeper the other day on a local BBS and he
>suggested that we buy a 660-meg hard drive instead for the following
>reason:  CD mastering.  When the drive fills up, it can be transferred
>to a CD-ROM and duplicated.  Then we can sell the disks as further
>revenue.  This is just a preliminary thought (i.e., I don't know what
>the market is like for Apple II CD-ROM's and I don't know how much it
>will cost to master and duplicate the disks), but it gives us a definite
>goal to reach.  If we get enough money, we'll just buy two 660-meg HD's
>and fill those up.

  Well, to stick it on CSN we still need a 1.2G drive, but that need
not apply if we find another site to reliably and permanently put
the drive on (I don't believe an education site will suffice; I think we need
a solid commercial site).

>    Another point:  how "far back" are we going to go with the archive? 
>Do we include only ProDOS stuff?  What about DOS 3.3, CP/M and Pascal
>disks?  Should those be included as well?

  Hey, go for the gusto! :-)  Do it all, if you're going to do it at all.
BTW, Procyon will contribute $30.  Lobby your other favorite software
houses to do the same!

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