[Coco] Color Computer Archive Question...

[John Guin]

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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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pierce via Coco
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:36 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer Archive Question...


Allen, the Color Computer Archive is run by Guilluame Major
 

Bill Pierce
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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...


> 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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