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

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

In <1993Apr11.121018.27003@news.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:

>	We can accept credit cards.  I'd be willing to collect money,
>as long as I'm not responsible for purchasing the drive, or talking to
>whomever to get it setup (I don't know who to talk to).

If somebody's willing to take credit card orders (even if I have to pay
extra for the credit card order -- sigh), I'd go in for even more that $20
-- maybe, say, $30 or so.

>	The question is do we have 70 people?  I'm game...  And I say
>we go for the 1.2 gig drive... Apple II users deserve the best, righ?
>:)

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 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.

- Eric S.

>Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
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>Genie:  S.Chiang4              Apple IIGS Forever!
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