[Coco] Working on Coco Files

[Mark D. Overholser]

On 25-Nov-16 15:53, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> I tried, they just said upload the ~ 14GB and we would look at it.
> Preposterous. Some of the files are online, but no one is responsible
> and the friend will stop hosting the site.
>
> http://www.os9projects.com/
>
> Other CoCo files have just been deleted.
>
> One example:
>
> https://ia801507.us.archive.org/isoview.php?iso=/22/items/cdrom-coco-archive/coco_archive.iso
>
>
> It also disappeared from:
>
> http://oldcomputerhut.net/files/Coco/
>
> Yes it still in on RTSI, but how long will it last there as well as
> so much more:
>
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/coco_archive.iso
>
> And what about the files here:
>
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/RSDOS/incoming/
>
> That is our oldest archive.
>
> The idea that the CoCo files will be available for much longer needs
> to be examined. The people wanting to use the files will disappear.
>
> SHF
>

Stephen et al.,

I have been in contact with Jason Scott of archive.org..  You can see 
the Conversation below..
His e-mail is <jason at textfiles.com>

If the members of this group that have CoCo Archives want to contact 
him, he will provide an FTP Address or a mailing address for DVD-ROM to 
be mailed to.  You can also follow up with him to make sure that the 
CoCo Archives, get Archived..


MarkO



 >On 10-Dec-16 21:53, Jason Scott wrote:
 >>
 >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Mark D. Overholser 
<marko at markoverholser.com
 >> <mailto:marko at markoverholser.com>> wrote:
 >>
 >>>    On 12/10/2016 21:37, Jason Scott wrote:
 >>>
 >>>        Sounds like some strange miscommunication.
 >>>
 >>>
 >>     That is what I thought.
 >>
 >>>
 >>>         So, in general, I've generally liked having an item with 
all the
 >>>         stuff
 >>>         (that's where the massive items out there, like "all of 
Asimov" or
 >>>         whatever come from, numbering in gigabytes). That way no 
matter what
 >>>         people might think about curation done afterwards, they can get
 >>>         to the
 >>>         original.
 >>>
 >>
 >>     Do you have a Getting Started Guide for Submitting your "archive" to
 >>     archive.org <http://archive.org>??
 >>
 >>
 >>>         After that, it's possible to pull out items to make them more
 >>>         accessible
 >>>         (making manuals viewable, or programs playable, etc.)
 >>>
 >>
 >>     That makes sense.. Archive first, then Organize....
 >>
 >>>         Sometimes people don't understand 1. We have plenty of 
space, 2. We
 >>>         don't mind redundancy so that some stuff is saved, while other
 >>>         pieces
 >>>         are made available. If you want to convince people of that, go
 >>>         for it.
 >>>
 >>
 >>     I will "settle" for knowing what steps are needed to submit an
 >>     Archive, and how you go about setting up something like the Asimov
 >>     Archive..
 >>
 >>     It appears that there are three or four Tandy CoCo sites, which
 >>     includes Cassette Images, RDOS ( Radio-Shacks original DOS ) Images,
 >>     and archives for the Tandy CoCo versions of FLEX OS and OS/9..
 >>
 >>     Thank You for spending a few minutes to look into this matter...   I
 >>     really appreciate it....
 >>
 >>     MarkO
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >
 >If someone assembles stuff into ZIPs, I can give you an FTP site to
 >upload them all (or send DVD-ROMs, whichever's easier.)
 >
 >