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)