[Coco] Question about Delphi's CoCo Sig (1980's)

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Back when I first joined Delphi, I recorded my first session keystroke by keystroke and most of the following sessions until the modem speed rose above 300 Baud.

Thus I have machine readable listings of the files on Delphi, and the one page blurb about the files in many cases, usually when I also have the file.

One thing that I dislike about RTSI is that the one page blurbs are for the most part missing for the files.

In fact there is not even a structure that would hold them. RTSI does not even have the one line descriptions for the files. I have these for all the files on Delphi.

I also have the similar information for the files on CIS thanks to ___________ (Neil???). I have temporarily lost some old messages to allow me to refresh my memory as to who supplied them.

That person was also looking for his archive of Delphi files, but they apparently never found by him.

So there exists much information about the files, but I do not believe the massive effort to organize the files will be of use to very many of us.

I also have many messages in the forums and again the one line descriptions for the threads.

That database is huge, >> 60K entries, was the reason that I upgraded my database tools.

Stephen H. Fischer <sfischer1 at mindspring.com>

----- Original Message -----

  From: Ray Watts 
  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
  Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [Coco] Question about Delphi's CoCo Sig (1980's)


  Neil,   I checked out the Delphi link you posted, including FAQ and Terms of Service, but found no indication that an archive of 1980's and 1990's uploads exist.  Do you, or does anyone else, know if an archive does,indeed, exist?  There were many valuable uploads listed in the Rainbows that never made it to the RTSI site (or CD).  Like Perry, I couldn't afford the luxury of Delphi back then (for the opposite reasons; kids in college, etc) and would like to download some of them.  If they still have the archive, it would be well worth the $3.95/month to join.  Thanks.

  Griz


  Neil Morrison wrote:

It's still there but it's a pale and sickly shadow of it's former
self.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/cocosig/start

NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Perry M Dueck" <pmdueck at shaw.ca>


  Hi all,
    ...
  Anyways, I was just wondering if there was any way to access all
    the posts
  to the CoCo Sig on Delphi that were made back then and up until
    it's demise
  (or maybe it's still there and functioning???).

Are those posts archived someplace, or would one need an account
    with
  Delphi (if it even still exists?).
    

  



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