Re: Whats happened to grind and caltech - no A2 archives

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In article <4g3ph0$175g@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>, snelson@news.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson) writes:
|>From article <4g1psj$2h3@news.alexia.net.au>, by davoesq@melb.alexia.net.au (Stephen Davidson):
|>> G'day All,
|>> 
|>> 	    I've fragments of explainations of what has happened to 
|>> caltech A2 file archives, but not all the info.
|>> 
|>> Now I find that Grind's A2 archive has disappeared also.
|>> 
|>grind.isca.uiowa.edu has become liquify.isca.uiowa.edu.  BUT the a2 archive
|>moved to ground.isca.uiowa.edu.  Just use ground.isca wherever you used
|>grind.isca before and everything should be fine.
|>
|>The a2.jan96 and a2.feb96 gelamps should be in the apple2/gelamp/ directory
|>on ground.isca.uiowa.edu
|>
|>Ground.isca.uiowa.edu still has the 10 anon ftp user limit.  BUT since
|>it is only apple2 users using it for file archives, that should be plenty.
|>No more Mac, MSDOS/Windows, Amigas users to conflict with.  On the other
|>hand, with the ever increasing use of apple2 emulators to make those
|>machines useful computers, they are raiding the a2 sites for all the
|>software then can suck up :-)  Pretty soon the apple2 user base will be
|>the largest userbase in the world!!!!!!
|>
|>  --Steve  (steven-nelson@uiowa.edu)
|>
|>


	Thanks for this new pointer. I tried it this morning
	it works great.

	I was thinking that grind was like caltech a Dead 
	Apple2 ftp site.


		-Erik.