[Coco] CoCo history roundup project

[Paul Fitch]

In my files I've got two massive Delphi msg files that reportedly cover from
August 85 to May 2001, plus individual 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995 message
directories.  Not sure on completeness.  The readmes indicate that there are
about 50,000 messages there.

I have Coco/OS-9 FIDO message logs from 1993 to 1999.  Again, not sure on
completeness or content. 

For compuserve, I have directories for 1990 thru 1995, plus a series of
files for the individual interest areas like applications, Coco, language,
music, ect...  From looking thru them, there are missing months, but still,
its an awful lot of stuff.


 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Roger Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:23 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: [Coco] CoCo history roundup project
> 
> 
> 
> You might find this interesting, before or after it's done.
> 
> The project is underway to blog-ify every possible CoCo web 
> posting to date, before Google gets it all and owns us.  I 
> understand that Google or Yahoo already host some of "our" 
> message archives?
> 
> But who deletes all this stuff the big dogs "aquire"?  Surely 
> it's still all out there on some server or web page free to 
> view or download.
> 
> Most of the data I've found is in simple ASCII format that I 
> can process by reading simple headers, and then build xml 
> import files fairly easily.  I'm not that good with 
> processing the SQL query files from my past forums so 
> thankfully Lothan has given some time to crank out what is 
> looking like a sure-thing to bring back 4,000 to 5,000 CoCo 
> Forum messages from 2004 to 2009.
> 
> To Steve Bjork and the others who lost posts... I won't let you down. 
> I'll get it all back for us... just give me some time.  By 
> Christmas I should have a breathtaking CoCo archive at your 
> fingertips.
> 
> The goal is to have a place you can drop into without even 
> logging in, and just start clicking away and searching CoCo 
> categories and posts/comments posted as far back as 1984, for example.
> 
> The bad part... those damn ALL CAPS messages we used to 
> enjoy... what to do with those...  maybe for historical 
> purposes they should stay as-is.
> 
> I have:
> 1990 - 1996 Compuserve CoCo posts (but where is prior to 1990 ?)
> 2003 - 2009 mailing list posts (this list) Princeton mailing 
> list posts (but where are they now?)
> 
> 
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