[Coco] Re OS9 Projects

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, those are the same ones.
>
> A few of us are adding the files to our website/ftp site in order to make
> them available from more than one source. Hopefully, that will limit any
> detrimental effects to any one website. My host claims 'unlimited'
> storage/bandwidht, but, I doubt that will hold true if people started to d/l
> multiple copies of some of the Rainbow files - some are 1/2 GB in size.
>

I've optimized and ClearScan OCR'ed most of the Rainbows.  The result
is an easier to read file that is about 10% of the size.
I uploaded several years worth to malted media, along with many OS-9
manuals, but I'm not sure where they ended up, if anywhere.  If you'd
like I can try to send them to your site, they save quite a bit of
space and bandwidth.
-Aaron


>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does your host have a monthly transfer limit?  I'd hate to have you
>> cut off or get a gigantic bill.
>> I'm missing a lot of issues.  Are those the same scans that someone
>> posted to the Rapidshare account or whatever free host that was a year
>> or two ago?
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:
>> > Don,
>> >
>> > ALL of the Rainbows are available at ftp.maltedmedia.com under
>> > coco/MAGS0/RAINBOW. they are in two formats. pdf, and djvu. Take your
>> pick.
>> > The more sites that have them, the longer they will last for posterity.
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > On 3/28/2010 8:46 AM, Donald Person wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Heya -- I was looking through the site (very nice by the way!) and
>> landed
>> >> in the "magazines" section. I noticed you don't yet have any Rainbow
>> >> magazines. I can't tell you how long I've scoured the web/ftp
>> >> sites/questionable sites trying to find issues of that.
>> >>
>> >> I have a LOT of magazines in PDF that I've downloaded over time. I have
>> >> They take up a significant amount of space, but I'd be more than happy
>> to
>> >> send 'em if you'd like!
>> >>
>> >> So far I have 51 issues of Rainbow (still working on getting more),
>> >>  around 120 issues of Compute!, 62 issues of 80 Microcomputing (I think
>> I
>> >> have a few the site's missing)...  And many more things.  Just let me
>> know;
>> >> I'd be happy to contribute what I can.
>> >>
>> >> -Don
>> >>
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