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

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:

>Let's count up, folks.  Is someone taking the "official" tally?  I know we
>have a couple of people counting.  Maybe someone could collect emailed
>pledges of specific dollar amounts?

I have been doing that. I'll post an update tomorrow or something

>I think it would be great to have an archive, for two reasons:
>a) it would eliminate the fear of having the Apple II archive eliminated.
>b) having lots and lots of space would be conducive to actually archiving
>every good piece of software to come through the net -- not everything
>makes to to ccosun, for example.

Plus, it's just nice if it belongs to us, not someone else.
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