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

[scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon)]

In article <bazyar.734371479@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>
>  Turns out we have to get a 1.2G drive @$1400.  That's 70 people @ $20
>each, a far cry from my original estimate.. It's definitely time
>to think of something else.  Perhaps the Apple II magazines and software
>companies would chip in some money for this?  Procyon could donate $50
>(after all, for a 1.2G drive I intend to move the GNO stuff here as well :-)
>-what about WestCode, Seven Hills, A+/inCider, GS+?  Capitalism is great,
>but philanthropy is even better. :)

I'm still in favor, at $20 a pop.

Incidentally, the Mac archive at Stanford (info-mac) did this a few months
ago and raised over $3000 in under a week, if I remember.  At any rate they
did a LOT better than they were expecting, and it was due in a large part
to the fact they they set up with someone who could take credit card charges.
Apparently people are more willing to part with $20 on their card than $20
from their wallet.

Just something to note.


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