Re: Buy a permanent archive! (was Re: now on cco.caltech.edu ..)

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

In <1q4mar$7d3@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:

>That's more like it.  I gotta admit the thought of putting a mere 130M drive
>on a SPARC kinda made me wince.  If this is gonna be worth doing, it's worth
>doing right.  I think you oughta be able to get a 1G+ drive for less than
>$1400 -- watch m.f.c.* for awhile if you have to.  Even if it is the best you
>can get, if you can't raise $1400 from the entire II community for a project
>such as this, we're in deep deep doo doo.

True.  But we can also consider the option of just dividing up the files
between plains.nodak.edu and ccosun.caltech.edu, _if_ we can't come up
with the money to get that hard drive.  I'm willing to chuck in $20 or so.

- Eric S.


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