[Coco] Color Computer Archive Question...

[Louis Ciotti]

Yea the actual software portion would probably be on the smaller size
(relative).  I am sure the larger stuff is the documents (manuals,
magazines, etc)

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:36 AM, John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:

> And how big is the archive?
>
> I can't imagine that there is all that much software - measured in MB -
> for the Coco.  Not counting magazine and documentation scans, there should
> be a free hosting site out there somewhere that can handle this smallish
> (by modern and growing standards) load.  Onedrive allows 7GB free storage
> and I'm sure google is in that ballpark.
>
> I just don't think that the Coco traffic load would even be a blip on the
> radar to these larger providers nowadays.
>
> John
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> Allen, the Color Computer Archive is run by Guilluame Major
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 10:31 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer Archive Question...
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> > On Jan 22, 2015, at 8:15 AM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What’s the problem with that exactly?
> > Are site owners being charged by the mb for downloads?
> > Small, personal type servers that get bogged down?
>
> Yes to all. Depends on the hosting plan. Simplenet, back in the day, had
> "unlimited bandwidth and storage" -- my early photo site was there, pushing
> the boundaries with hundreds of megabytes of storage :)  Yahoo! bought them
> and shut that nonsense down. But yeah, it could be $$$.
>
> > I don’t see why a site (or chunks of it) couldn’t be packed into an
> > archive and put on a google drive type account for download.  A small
> > Paypal could even be charged for the dl link if needed.
>
> But then you are "selling copyrighted material"... Tricky.
>
> For Mac users (or Linux), it's trivial to write a script that will snarf
> up all the files in a web page using command line utilities. I did this to
> grab all the MAME artwork from a site -- it would "wget" the HTML page,
> then I'd run it through some filters and emit command lines to download the
> individual zips.
>
> Who runs the Archive?
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