Re: A New and Larger HD for the Apple2 Ground Site - Donated!

[Daniel Zimmerman <dmz@tffenterprises.com>]

In article <8dllbv$s43$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>, 
apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>In article <38FE37A5.8C9C4564@swbell.net>,
>Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>     Is there any indication when the 3GB drive will be installed? (Like, 
>>     will
>>there be any problem moving to a new SCSI drive after all these years?)
>>
>
>I assume there will be no problem using a newer SCSI drive, but when it
>will be installed is at the convenience of The DomainOS manager.
>Logistics include moving the files from one drive to the other.  If both
>can be installed in the machine, copying will be easy.  If tar archives
>need to made, it will be slower.  Maybe we'll install in another machine
>and ftp the files over before switching HD's.  If it is possible to do,
>I'm sure it will done within a month.  Dave F. may tell me to forget it.
>I haven't talked to him or asked him yet about swapping HD's.  But he has
>always been cooperative.

If you need someplace to put stuff temporarily (or even permanently, for 
redundancy :), I can certainly volunteer multiple gigabytes of space. I 
just moved the Caltech archive (now the TFF Enterprises archive) to a 
new server at the end of March, and I've got about 12 GB free (not that 
I can afford to put all of that to use as Apple II Archive storage, but 
I can certainly spare a gig or two - and a lot of the files in ground 
are probably already on the drive anyway). 

I'm also looking for someone to help out with the administrative stuff
for the server - I'm sure you're all aware that I haven't done a good 
job keeping it up-to-date the last 2 years or so (there's 80 MB of stuff 
in the incoming directory :)... If you want to lend a hand, let me know 
and I'll get you set up.

The archive's new (and hopefully permanent) URL is 
<http://apple2.tffenterprises.com/> for web access, and 
<ftp://apple2.tffenterprises.com/pub/apple2/> for ftp access.

-Dan Zimmerman

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Daniel M. Zimmerman             Caltech Infospheres Research Group
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Pasadena, California  91125  USA                dmz@cs.caltech.edu