Re: My Vintage Computing Files Archive

[John <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>]

On Jun 22, 10:54 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> james wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:49:46 -0700, magnusfalkirk
> > <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>+++On Jun 21, 2:11 pm, Chris Morse <win32...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>+++> On Jun 21, 11:32 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >>+++>
> >>+++> > On Jun 21, 12:18 am, hexstar <hexs...@gmail.com> wrote:> FAQ
> >>+++>
> >>+++> > How about... Where is the archive?  You seem to have neglected to tell
> >>+++> > us where to go in the first place.
> >>+++>
> >>+++> I found it here:http://vintage.tsfsc.com/the-archive/
> >>+++>
> >>+++> // CHRIS
> >>+++
> >>+++Interesting, the Apple II archive is simply a copy of the Asimov
> >>+++Archive.
> >>+++
> >>+++Dean
>
> > **************
>
> > That is all he is doing. Copying other archives and calling them his
> > own.
>
> His rather lengthy text seemed to make a major point about the value
> of simply mirroring other's archives, so I don't get the impression
> that he is claiming ownership.
>
> In fact, he is correct--copying archives *is* a real value, since it
> improves availablility through distributed redundancy.
>
> -michael
>
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>
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FWIW:
WinHTTrack mirroring was slow (24kB/sec average over a couple of
nights), but it seems to have downloaded fine.