[Noisebridge-discuss] Do you remember Walnut Creek CD-ROM?

Leif Ryge leif at synthesize.us
Tue Feb 23 01:00:34 UTC 2010


On 02/22/2010 04:33 PM, Ever Falling wrote:
> how hard would it be to simply create ISO's of each disc and then megaupload
> the files or some other means of transferring them instead of mailing them
> out? or is there more involved that i'm not aware of that can only be done
> in person?

Everfalling,

It sounds like you just volunteered to image a bunch of CDs! Awesome!

~leif

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jason Scott<jason at textfiles.com>  wrote:
>
>> Yes, I would prefer to archive them rather than have them attached to a
>> wall.
>>
>> If you'd like, I'll pay for shipping them, archiving them, and mailing
>> them back so they can be attached to the wall afterwards.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Ronald Cotoni<setient at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I have a freebsd 2.2.6 cd from walnut creek.  It was my first freebsd
>>> install ever!  Anyone have cheapbytes.com cd's by any chance either?
>>> Back in 1997, they had linux cd's for 1.99.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Jacob Appelbaum<jacob at appelbaum.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> Hey Jason,
>>>>
>>>> Are you interested in some archivin' action? If so, I think Rubin has
>>>> something for you...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan Foote wrote:
>>>>> FSM and future historians bless him,  Jason Scott (textfiles.com) has
>>>>> a thing for archiving vintage CD ROMs, Might be worth  pinging him --
>>>>> it doesn't look like he has those in his collection:
>>>>> http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, this is orthogonal to the wall mounting question.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Rubin Abdi<rubin at starset.net>  wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubin110/4377925131/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This box is near the library. I'm not sure if it has every single BSD
>>>>>> release that Walnut Creek pressed, but it's a whole lot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I was younger I remember getting on ftp.cdrom.com and grabbing
>> as
>>>>>> much shareware gates as I could get my filthy little hands on. It's so
>>>>>> odd that they're gone now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unless someone has a strong objection to it, I'm thinking of mounting
>>>>>> each disc on a wall in the space.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Rubin Abdi
>>>>>> rubin at starset.net
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