OT: Apple II archives and disk media

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

It occurred to me the other day that if all the files on the major Apple II
archive sites (Asimov, Fairway, etc.) were combined, all of the Apple II
software would probably fit within 10 GB of disk space.

In any event, a person could easily download all of the available Apple II
software to a local hard drive.  IMHO it would be very cool to have all of
the Apple II software available on demand from a local drive.

If all of the duplicate titles were eliminated that could probably be
brought within the storage capacity of a single DVD-RAM.  That's the reason
I asked previously about whether any SCSI DVD-ROM drives are currently
compatible with the Apple II.

I realize that the rate at which new Apple II software appears has
diminished to a trickle, but I wonder if the same is true of other
platforms.  Admittedly, the disk space consumed by new Windows applications
apparently expands at an exponential rate, but I suspect that is mostly
bloatage.

This led me to the observation that the capacity of disk storage technology
may be increasing at a rate higher than the rate at which people actually
produce any new content.  If so, then a day is coming in which, for example,
all of the music ever recorded could be stored on a single disk (or other
media).  Similarly, all of the movies recorded up until a point in time
could be recorded on a single piece of media.

The C-One would be pretty appealing if it shipped with a copy of every
Commodore-64 title ever released.

Any thoughts?