🚀 go-pugleaf

hugha@techbook.com (Hugh Applewhite) writes:

> I would also like the 386BSD distribution (as well as X11).  There are
> much closer FTP sites than Germany (e.g. Oregon State and UUNET), with
> presumable higher transfer rates.  Maybe we could organize a weekend
> transfer with james to get the thing...

jonk (Jon Kirwan) was supposed to be contacting one or another of the
Jolitz's about getting a copy.  I would prefer to make copies on
QIC-24/DC-600 tape of a lot of this stuff rather than spend days
downloading it.  Consider: 4 megabytes/hour is a pretty good transfer
rate over most modems or SLIP links.   A 60MB tape would take 15 hours 
to download.  Or a few minutes to back up to tape.

I've been thinking about doing something like this: making tapes of BSD,
GNU (probably take at least two tapes), news (Cnews, nn, rn, trn, etc.),
games (five, six tapes?), etc.  You pick up a tape here at the store and 
are supposed to return it in a few days.  If you don't bring it back, 
there's no charge, you just can't pick up another tape until you bring 
the first one back.  Somebody could lug them to SLUG meetings, too.

This is based on used DC600 tapes being available relatively cheaply, as
in under $5/each.  That may be a wrong assumption ...  I pick DC600 for
two reasons: it's what I've got, and most 125MB/250MB drives are
supposed to be able to read (though not write) it.  I figure the
maintenance wouldn't be too bad once the first tapes were made: copy
them to a work area, move new files into it, then make a couple of
copies of that directory to tape.

Anyway, I've been meaning to post something about this to one of the
pdx.* groups to see if other people would be interested.  I know of half
a dozen people here who'd like to get BSD386.  And some folks that'd
like to get all of GNU, etc.

So if people are interested, holler, and maybe we can get some of the
nitty gritty details worked out.