Re: Ground archive

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Steve Nelson wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago ground.ecn.uiowa.edu suffered a drive failure and has been
> offline since that time.  I have not found a replacement drive yet (50pin
> narrow, single-ended SCSI, which was commonly used several years ago).
> Unfortunately, I have been told that the recent backup tapes are
> unavailable.  So, if the ground machine is ever resurrected, the backup
> must come from a site that mirrored ground.
> 
> I still read csa2 on a different machine, but it is not configured to post
> followups so it is hard to communicate with this newsgroup.  It is
> surprising that several weeks went by without someone mentioning the loss
> of the ground archive.  I was beginning to get worried that no-one cared
> ;-)
> 
> Apple ][ forever!
> 
>   --Steve (formerly apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)



Hi, Steve!

     Actually, the loss of Ground was noticed very quickly and "(Down)" tags
were added to the main FAQs links starting with the Start Page at
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html . Also emailed you and David.

     There is a good mirror on Apple2.org.za. It's listed in the FAQs beneath
the listing for Ground on the "Major Apple II Archives" page at
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs4MAJORSITES.html . The mirror URL is
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/ .

     Neat that there have been so many offers for help posted on Csa2. Hope
Ground is back soon.


Rubywand