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

Jonathan Foote jtfoote at ieee.org
Tue Feb 23 01:00:52 UTC 2010


Jason, thanks.

Looks like this is my opportunity to step up and actually do something.
I will take responsibility for packing/shipping.

Jason, can you send me [privately] a shipping address?

Let's take further discussion off the list unless anyone finds it 
fascinating.

Thanks to Jake for the contact info.

-J

Jason Scott 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.
>>>>>




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