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

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <bazyar.734371479@teal>, bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
|>   Turns out we have to get a 1.2G drive @$1400.  That's 70 people @ $20
|> each, a far cry from my original estimate.. It's definitely time
|> to think of something else.  Perhaps the Apple II magazines and software
|> companies would chip in some money for this?  Procyon could donate $50
|> (after all, for a 1.2G drive I intend to move the GNO stuff here as well :-)
|> -what about WestCode, Seven Hills, A+/inCider, GS+?  Capitalism is great,
|> but philanthropy is even better. :)
|>   I don't have the time to manage the soliciting, so anyone who wants
|> the job has it.

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.

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